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Optic nerve sheath diameter ultrasound evaluation in intensive care unit. possible role and clinical aspects in neurological critical patients' daily monitoring [PDF]

, 2017
Background. The increase of the optic nerve sheath diameter (ONSD) is a reliable, noninvasive sonographic marker of intracranial hypertension. Aim of the study was to demonstrate the efficacy of ONSD evaluation, when monitoring neurocritical patients, to
DI PIERO, Vittorio, Mecarelli, Oriano, Pulitano, Patrizia, Rocco, Monica, Spadetta, Gustavo, Toscano, Massimiliano, Vicenzini, Edoardo   +6 more
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MRI measurement of optic nerve sheath diameter using 3D driven equilibrium sequence as a non-invasive tool for the diagnosis of idiopathic intracranial hypertension

The Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, 2020
Background The idiopathic intracranial hypertension is a disease that is represented by high intracranial pressure of unknown reason. The visual disturbance presents the main medical problem of this syndrome.
Ahmed S. Abdelrahman, Mai M. K. Barakat
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Assessment of acute headache in adults - what the general physician needs to know. [PDF]

, 2018
Headache is common. Up to 5% of attendances to emergency departments and acute medical units are due to headache. Headache is classified as either primary (eg migraine, cluster headache) or secondary to another cause (eg meningitis, subarachnoid ...
Agrawal, Cappelen-Smith, Dodick, Hoffmann, Mac Grory, Macdonald, omi, Savitz, Sheikh, Solomon   +9 more
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Anterior ischemic optic neuropathy in a patient with papilledema from idiopathic intracranial hypertension

American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports, 2020
Patients may lose vision in idiopathic intracranial hypertension from worsening papilledema and optic nerve dysfunction. Acute vision loss may also occur in this context from anterior ischemic optic neuropathy.
Jingyi Ma, Jonathan A. Micieli
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Pseudotumor cerebri syndrome in childhood : incidence, clinical profile and risk factors in a national prospective population-based cohort study [PDF]

, 2017
Aim To investigate the epidemiology, clinical profile and risk factors of pseudotumor cerebri syndrome (PTCS) in children aged 1-16 years. Methods A national prospective population-based cohort study over 25 months.
Dean, Fiona, Kennedy, Colin R., Lim, Ming J., Matthews, Yim-Yee, Mclachlan, Karen, Rigby, Alan S., Solanki, Guirish A., White, Catharine P., Whitehouse, William P.   +8 more
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The perfect crime? : CCSVI not leaving a trace in MS [PDF]

, 2011
Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system, believed to be triggered by an autoimmune reaction to myelin.
Mayer, Christoph, Pfeilschifter, Waltraud, Lorenz, Matthias, Nedelmann, Max, Bechmann, Ingo Jürgen, Steinmetz, Helmuth, Ziemann, Ulf   +6 more
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Idiopathic intracranial hypertension [PDF]

Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2011
More than 93% of people with idiopathic intracranial hypertension (previously called pseudotumour cerebri and benign intracranial hypertension) are obese. The annual incidence of the disease is highest among young obese women, at an estimated 20 per 100 000.[1][1] The median age at onset is 34 ...
Michel J, Belliveau, Martin W, ten Hove
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Idiopathic intracranial hypertension presenting with isolated unilateral facial nerve palsy: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2019
Background Idiopathic intracranial hypertension, also known as pseudotumor cerebri, is a disorder characterized by increased intracranial pressure of unclear pathogenesis in the absence of other structural and obstructive lesions that is predominantly ...
Ahmad Samara, Dana Ghazaleh, Brent Berry, Malik Ghannam   +3 more
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MRI evidence for altered venous drainage and intracranial compliance in mild traumatic brain injury. [PDF]

, 2013
To compare venous drainage patterns and associated intracranial hydrodynamics between subjects who experienced mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and age- and gender-matched controls.
Alperin, Noam, Ertl-Wagner, Birgit, Heinen, Florian, Koerte, Inga, Laubender, Ruediger P., Lee, Sang, Pomschar, Andreas, Straube, Andreas   +7 more
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Management of Cerebellar Tonsillar Herniation following Lumbar Puncture in Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension

Case Reports in Critical Care, 2015
Lumbar puncture is performed routinely for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes in idiopathic intracranial hypertension, despite lumbar puncture being classically contraindicated in the setting of raised intracranial pressure.
Kenneth R. Hoffman, Sean W. Chan, Andrew R. Hughes, Stephen J. Halcrow   +3 more
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