[Prophylactic migraine treatment with topiramate].

Migraine is a very common disorder characterized by the combination of typical headache with associated autonomic symptoms and ranked by the WHO as number 19 among all diseases worldwide causing disability. Considerable progresses have been made in recent years to understand the pathophysiology of migraine, which has led to improved treatment options for the acute migraine attack as well as migraine prophylaxis. When headaches are frequent or particularly severe, prophylactic therapy should be considered, however preventive treatment is often insufficient to decrease migraine frequency substantially or is not well tolerated. The present paper summaries the possible drug treatment options which have the A level of evidence for effective preventive therapy of migraine. Summarises the evidences for the prophylactic migraine treatment, specially the role of the newly approved topiramate in the prophylaxis.