Fulminant Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension With Malignant Systemic Hypertension—A Case Report

Idiopathic portal hypertension complicating systemic sclerosis: Case report

Minocycline-induced fulminant intracranial hypertension.

OBJECTIVE To describe the clinical course of an unusually severe case of minocycline-induced intracranial hypertension. DESIGN Case study. SETTING Academic medical center. PATIENT Twelve-year-old girl with a fulminant course of intracranial hypertension. INTERVENTIONS Magnetic resonance imaging and venography of the brain, lumbar puncture, and optic nerve sheath fenestration. RESULTS ...

Idiopathic portal hypertension complicating systemic sclerosis: a case report

BACKGROUND Patients with systemic sclerosis may develop mild abnormalities of liver function tests. More serious hepatic involvement has been well documented but is rare. Idiopathic portal hypertension had been reported only in a few female patients with systemic sclerosis. CASE PRESENTATION An 82-year-old man with known systemic sclerosis presented with melaena. Urgent gastroscopy revealed o...

A case of idiopathic intracranial hypertension related with vesicoureteral reflux.

Pseudotumor cerebri is idiopathic intracranial hypertension. The etiology of this syndrome has not been fully clarified. Excess cerebrospinal fluid production, scarcity of cerebrospinal fluid absorption, intracranial venous pressure elevation, increased intracranial blood volume are all thought to be responsible. The symptoms of the disease may be ordered according to prevalence as follows: hea...

A case of Gitelman syndrome associated with idiopathic intracranial hypertension.

An 18-year-old woman with Gitelman syndrome (GS) associated with idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) is described. She was obese and showed a 10 kg gain in body weight over a period of 8 months. She presented with headache, vomiting, and diplopia. She had bilateral papilledema, and right abducens palsy. CSF examination demonstrated high pressure (over 320 mmH(2)O) with normal cytochemist...