Table 1 Patients: previous headache history and relevant clinical data.
| n | Age (years), sex | Handed‐ness Oldfield index | Age at migraine onset (years) | Usual migraine attacks | Attacks with crossed aphasia | Imaging | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duration of aura | Aphasic symptoms | Localising signs | Attack witnessed | Repetition of CA attacks | ||||||||
| MWA | VARS | MwoA | ||||||||||
| 1 | 19, M | RH 100 | 18 | Visual, sensory aphasic aura | 8 | No | 20–90 min | Anomia | L hemianopia | Yes | Yes | CT |
| L paresthesias | MRI | |||||||||||
| L hemiparesis | ||||||||||||
| 2 | 46, M | RH | 36 | Visual and aphasic aura | 10 | No | 10 min | Anomia semantic paraphasias | L hemianopia | Yes family | Yes | CT |
| 3 | 20, F | RH 100 | 9 | Visual and sensory aura | 8 | Yes | 60 min | Anomia speech programming impairment | L hemianopia | No | Yes | CT |
| L paresthesias | ||||||||||||
| 4 | 23, M | RH 80 | 12 | Visual aura | 8 | No | 4 h | Cannot organise sentences paraphasias | L hemianopia | Yes ER | No | CT |
| L paresthesias | MRI | |||||||||||
| L hemiparesis | ||||||||||||
| 5 | 34, M | RH 100 | 12 | Visual sensory aura | 5 | Yes | 60–120 min | Stereotype “hum” paraphasias | L paresthesias | Yes ER | Yes | CT |
| MRI | ||||||||||||
CA, crossed aphasia; ER, emergency room; F, female; L, left; M, male; RH, right handed; MWA, migraine with aura; MWoA, migraine without aura; VARS, Visual Aura Rating Scale.