• A&A practice · Feb 2019

    Case Reports

    Management of Presumed Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension: A Case Report.

    • Nathan Swallow and Lisa V Doan.
    • From the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Care and Pain Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York.
    • A A Pract. 2019 Feb 15; 12 (4): 93-95.

    AbstractSpontaneous intracranial hypotension is an uncommon disorder with symptoms including postural headache that can be debilitating to patients. Diagnosis is mainly clinical, aided by imaging of the brain and spine with or without diagnostic procedures. Treatment can vary depending on severity, but most cases involve an epidural blood patch. We describe a case of a patient with clinical findings of spontaneous intracranial hypotension but with normal brain imaging. The patient responded to lumbar epidural blood patches and did not require additional tests to confirm the diagnosis.

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