Spontaneous intracranial hypotension

Current Pain and Headache Reports
B Mokri

Abstract

Spontaneous intracranial hypotension (SIH) is typically manifested by orthostatic headaches that may be associated with one or more of several other symptoms, including pain or stiffness of the neck, nausea, emesis, horizontal diplopia, dizziness, change in hearing, visual blurring or visual field cuts, photophobia, interscapular pain, and occasionally face numbness or weakness or radicular upper-limb symptoms. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressures, by definition, are quite low. SIH almost invariably results from a spontaneous CSF leak. Only very infrequently is this leak at the skull base (cribriform plate). In the overwhelming majority of patients, the leak is at the level of the spine, particularly the thoracic spine and cervicothoracic junction. Sometimes, documented leaks and typical clinical and imaging findings of SIH are associated with CSF pressures that are consistently within limits of normal. Magnetic resonance imaging of the head typically shows diffuse pachymeningeal gadolinium enhancement, often with imaging evidence of sinking of the brain, and less frequently with subdural fluid collections, engorged cerebral venous sinuses, enlarged pituitary gland, or decreased size of the ventricles. Radioisotope cisternograph...Continue Reading

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