Persistent high-altitude headache and aguesia without anosmia

M. R. Kassirer and R. V. Such
Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine.

High-altitude headache and taste dysfunction are usually cured within a few months by descent to sea level. We studied a patient who had persistent bitemporal throbbing headache with the associated findings of high-altitude headache syndrome 15 years after a compression chamber accident. He also had loss of taste without loss of smell since the incident.