Research Article
Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension: Long-Term Follow-Up
Table 2
Patients with spontaneous intracranial hypotension (SIH) and positive MR signs for intracranial hypotension.
| | N | M/F | Age at onset
(range) | Relapse
() | Comorbidity
() | Diagnostic | Work-up | Treatment | | MR brain | MR spine/CT-myelography | LP () (cm CSF) | Epidural
blood patch
(mean per
patient) | Other
treatment
() |
| | No headache | 16 | 7/9 | 39 (19-62) | 1 | Leiden V
Endometriosis
Migraine | 1
2
2 | PGE
Hygroma
BS
PE
VDS | 16
8
2
2
1 | Not performed
Normal
PGE
Perineural cysts
Epidural fluid
Disc herniation
M. diverticula
Osteophyte
CSVF
Dural defect | 8
1
2
1
4
0
0
0
1
1 | 3 (4, 7, 8) | 2.4
Patient with
8 EBPs
was not
included | Surgical
removal of
hygroma
Surgery for
CSVF | 2
1 |
| Exertional
headache/
mild chronic
headache | 14 | 7/7 | 44 (23-75) | 4 | Arterial hypertension
Atrial fibrillation
Irritable bowel sy | 2
1
1 | PGE
Hygroma
BS
PE
VDS | 14
5
2
2
3 | Not performed
Normal
PGE
Perineural cysts
Epidural fluid
Disc herniation
M. diverticula
Osteophyte
CSVF
Dural defect | 2
3
2
2
7
2
0
0
1
1 | 3 (0, 6, 5) | 1.8 | Surgery for
dural defect | 3 |
| Moderate-to-
severe
headache | 7 | 1/6 | 50 (36-65) | 1 | Arterial hypertension
Migraine | 1
3 | PGE
Hygroma
BS
PE
VDS
Normal | 6
1
1
1
0
1 | Not performed
Normal
PGE
Perineural cysts
Epidural fluid
Disc herniation
M. diverticula
Osteophyte
Dural defect | 1
3
0
2
2
0
1
1
1 | 1 (8) | 2.8 | 0 | |
| | Total | 37 | 15/22 | 44 | 6 | — | | — | | — | | 7 | 2.3 | — | |
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