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. 2021 May 11;28(1):145–152. doi: 10.15388/Amed.2021.28.1.19

Table 1.

Clinical features and criteria of migraine with aura [11]

ICHD-III diagnostic criteria Migraine headache features
A. At least two attacks fulfilling criteria B and C
B. One or more of the following fully reversible aura symptoms: visual, sensory, speech and/or language, motor, brainstem, retinal
C. At least three of the following six characteristics:
 1. at least one aura symptom spreads gradually over ≥ 5 minutes
 2. two or more aura symptoms occur in succession
 3. each individual aura symptom lasts 5–60 minutes
 4. at least one aura symptom is unilateral
 5. at least one aura symptom is positive
 6. the aura is accompanied, or followed within 60 minutes, by headache
D. Not better accounted for by another ICHD-3 diagnosis.
Duration: 4–72 hours
Location: unilateral
Quality: pulsating
Pain intensity: moderate to severe
Aggravating factors: physical activity
Associated symptoms: nausea and/or vomiting, photophobia and phonophobia