Prospective Evaluation of the Effect of Lumbar Puncture on Headaches in Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension
Creator
Tim Matthews; Andreas Yiangou; James Mitchell; Keira Markey; William Scotton; Peter Nightingale; Hannah Botfield; Ryan Ottridge; Susan Mollan; Alexandra Sinclair
Affiliation
(TM) Birmingham Neuro-Ophthalmology Unit, Birmingham, United Kingdom; (AY) (JM) (KM) (WS) (HB) (AS) Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; (PN) NIHR/Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom; (RO) Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; (SM) Birmingham Neuro-Ophthalmology Unit, University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Subject
High Intracranial Pressure/headache; Pseudotumor Cerebri; Neuro-ophth & Systyemic Disease
Description
Lumbar puncture (LP) may be considered to evaluate disease status and for therapeutic relief in Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH). The aim was to characterise the effect of LP on IIH headache severity in the week post-LP.
Date
2018-04
Language
eng
Format
video/mp4
Type
Image/MovingImage
Source
2018 North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society Annual Meeting
