Intracranial hypotension syndrome: a comprehensive review.

Michael Paldino, Alon Y Mogilner, Michael S Tenner

Journal: Neurosurgical focus 2005;15(6):ECP2

PMID: 15305844

Abstract

Intracranial hypotension may have variable clinical presentations, but has a rather uniform component of postural headache among its symptomatology. Its symptoms are explainable given the effects of the hypotension and attempts within the craniospinal axis to maintain volume homeostasis in the face of cerebrospinal fluid leakage (Monro-Kellie hypothesis). The imaging corollaries of the consequences of intracranial hypotension are especially well depicted on magnetic resonance imaging studies.

Address: Department of Neurosurgery, New York Medical College, Valhalla 10595, USA.

MeSH Terms: Adult, Blood Patch, Epidural, Diagnostic Imaging, Dura Mater, Female, Headache, Humans, Hyperemia, Hypotension, Injections, Epidural, Intracranial Hypotension, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Meninges, Myelography, Pituitary Gland, Posture, Sodium Chloride, Subdural Effusion, Syndrome, Tomography, X-Ray Computed, Ultrasonography, Doppler, Color, Veins