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Vascular headaches are a consequence of abnormalities in the blood vessels of the brain and the meninges. Among them, we can distinguish pains: migraine, related to atherosclerosis, vasomotor, hypotension and hypertension, and related to women’s menopause. The cause of vascular pain may be, for example, the presence of blood clots in the lumen of a cerebral vessel.
Pains of vascular origin – causes
Among the causes of vascular pains we can distinguish:
- atherosclerosis, otherwise known as sclerosis of the cerebral vessels,
- obstructed blood circulation and hypoxia of some tissues (migraine) due to vasoconstriction,
- the presence of clots or “atherosclerotic masses” in the lumen of the cerebral vessel, which in turn causes a heart attack (otherwise known as a stroke),
- constant contractions and relaxation of blood vessels leading to disturbances in blood flow and the associated change in the diameter of these vessels,
- frequent changes in blood pressure and thus intracranial pressure (headaches occur as a result of low or high blood pressure),
- hemorrhages (strokes) into the brain or between the meninges of the brain to the surface of the brain, which cause increased intracranial pressure.