Patients with intracranial hypotension may present with the classic postural headache and a broad spectrum of symptoms including nausea, vomiting, neck pain, visual and hearing disturbances, and vertigo. These various clinical presentations may lead to misdiagnosis of intracranial hypotension, thus delaying effective treatment. SIH is characterized by headache worse on standing , relieved on ly...

AIM Intracranial hypotension may have variable clinical presentation. The imaging characteristics of intracranial hypotension are especially well depicted on magnetic resonance imaging studies. Although the clinical and radiological manifestations of spontaneous intracranial hypotension are increasingly recognized in many reports, many other abnormalities in this disorder and complicating cases...

OBJECTIVE AND IMPORTANCE Spontaneous intracranial hypotension is an increasingly recognized cause of postural headache. However, appropriate management of obtundation caused by intracranial hypotension is not well defined. CLINICAL PRESENTATION A 43-year-old man presented with postural headache followed by rapid decline in mental status. Imaging findings were consistent with the diagnosis of ...

The most common causes of intracranial hypotension include persistent cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leakage from lumbar puncture, spontaneous CSF leakage, or excessive CSF drainage. Spontaneous intracranial hypotension (SIH) is defined as a syndrome of reduced CSF pressure that occurs in the absence of dural puncture, surgery, or trauma. The pathogenesis is generally thought to be an occult leak of...

Spontaneous intracranial hypotension (SIH) is a condition in which the fluid pressure inside skull lower than normal. It secondary to cerebrospinal (CSF) leak at level of spine and resulting loss CSF volume. Pseudo-subarachnoidal hemorrhage rare that can occur patients with spontaneous hypotension. The diagnosis very important because it be confused true subarachnoidal hemorrhage. True one comp...

Spontaneous intracranial hypotension (SIH) is a syndrome in which a cerebrospinal fluid leak occurs within the spinal axis, and may lead to a constellation of neurological symptoms. A postural or orthostatic headache is the most common of these symptoms1. Spontaneous intracranial hypotension was first recognized by Georg Schaltenbrand in the 1930s. Many terms have been used to describe the cond...

CSF-venous fistula is a recently reported cause of spontaneous intracranial hypotension that may occur in the absence of myelographic evidence of CSF leak. Information about this entity is currently very limited, but it is of potential importance given the large percentage of cases of spontaneous intracranial hypotension associated with negative myelography findings. We report 3 additional case...

OBJECTIVE a case is described of a spontaneously occurring cerebrospinal fluid collection in the ventral cervical spine which caused radiculopathy and spontaneous intracranial hypotension. CASE a sixty eight year old Caucasian man presented with a 2 year history of proximal upper limb weakness with a his-tory of trivial cervical trauma many years previously. METHODS the patient was investig...

INTRODUCTION Spontaneous intracranial hypotension is an infrequent cause of secondary headache due to cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) hypovolemia. OBJECTIVE To describe a case of headache revealing spontaneous intracranial hypotension complicated by subdural hematoma following lumbar puncture. OBSERVATION A 34-year-old man presented with acute postural headache. The first cerebral computed tomogr...