[Early detection of vascular cerebral pathology in differential diagnosis fo headache].

A comprehensive study of cerebral hemodynamics and microcirculation was made in 261 patients complaining for headache. Clinical-diagnostic criteria for headache of vascular origin, a scheme of vascular headache pathogenesis are proposed. It was found that the first to appear were negative alterations in the venous microcirculation. Neurophysiological methods with functional loading tests for objectivation of vascular cerebral defects at early stages and in the follow-up proved diagnostically effective.