BACKGROUND Postdural puncture headache (PDPH), mainly resulting from the loss of cerebral spinal fluid (CSF), is a well-known iatrogenic complication of spinal anesthesia and diagnostic lumbar puncture. Spinal needles have been modified to minimize complications. Modifiable risk factors of PDPH mainly included needle size and needle shape. However, whether the incidence of PDPH is significantly...

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...

Corresponding author: Eun-Ju Kim, M.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Daegu Fatima Hospital, 576-31, Sinam-dong, Dong-gu, Daegu 701-600, Korea. Tel: 82-53-940-7434, Fax: 82-53-954-7417, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3....

Copyright: © Arslan Z, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. *Corresponding author: ZakirArslan, MD, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Regional Training and Research Hospital, 2...

OBJECTIVE To describe the unusual course of postdural puncture headache (PDPH) after pump implantation for intrathecal baclofen (ITB) administration in patients with complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS)-related dystonia. DESIGN Case series based on data collected from 1996 to 2005. Setting. Movement disorders clinic, university hospital. PATIENTS A total of 54 patients with CRPS-related dy...

lumbar puncture (lp) is a procedure for obtaining spinal fluid from spinal meningeal spaces this can be done as a diagnostic or therapeutic procedure which can result in to a typical positional headache named as post lumbar puncture headache .this can cause a lot of discomforts for patients and makes fear from the procedure. this study designed to evaluate the effect of resting position after l...