Postdural puncture headache after caesarean section: are preventive strategies worse than the cure?
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[Postdural puncture headache after caesarean section: are preventive strategies worse than the cure?].
Postdural puncture headache (PDPH) was described immediately after the first spinal anesthesia (SA), when Bier himself suffered from a debilitating headache and attributed it to cerebrospinal fluid leakage through the dural rent. With better understanding of the pathophysiology of PDPH, and use of smaller bore needles for SA, the incidence to PDPH has gone down. Numerous risk factors for PDPH h...
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عنوان ژورنال: Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology (English Edition)
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0104-0014
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjane.2014.04.002