Department of Neurosurgery, Inge Lehmanns Vej 6, 2100, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark.
Department of Neurosurgery, Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine, Hempstead, NY, 11549, USA.
Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2021 Mar;163(3):733-737. doi: 10.1007/s00701-020-04692-0. Epub 2021 Jan 3.
Intracranial hypotension (IH) remains a difficult neurosurgical diagnosis. Relying solely on the symptomatology may be misleading for both diagnosis and assessment of treatment effect as symptoms may resemble other conditions not related to IH. As such, paraclinical supplements in both diagnosis and treatment follow-up are warranted. We present a 42-year-old male with IH treated with computed tomography-guided epidural blood patch. The diagnosis and treatment assessment included continual intracerebral pressure (ICP) monitoring. We found ICP monitoring helpful in IH diagnosis and long-term assessment of treatment and propose this modality as a supplement in difficult IH cases.
颅内低血压(IH)仍然是一种难以诊断的神经外科疾病。仅依靠症状可能会对诊断和治疗效果评估产生误导,因为症状可能与 IH 无关的其他病症相似。因此,在诊断和治疗随访中都需要辅助检查。我们报告了一例 42 岁男性 IH 患者,接受了 CT 引导下的硬膜外血贴治疗。诊断和治疗评估包括持续的颅内压(ICP)监测。我们发现 ICP 监测有助于 IH 的诊断和治疗效果的长期评估,并提出将这种方式作为 IH 疑难病例的一种补充。