Journal article
Symptoms and disease associations in idiopathic intracranial hypertension (pseudotumor cerebri): A case‐control study
Neurology, Vol.41(2 Part 1), pp.239-239
02/1991
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.41.2_Part_1.239
PMID: 1992368
Abstract
To identify the symptoms and coexisting medical conditions associated with idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), we administered an 83-item questionnaire at the time of diagnosis to 50 IIH patients and 100 age-matched controls. Ninety percent of the IIH patients were women; the mean age was 33. Obesity and recent weight gain were much more common among patients than controls. Symptoms most commonly reported by IIH patients were headache (94%), transient visual obscurations (TVO) (68%), and intracranial noises (ICN) (58%). Daily occurrence of these symptoms was much more common among patients than controls. Controls also reported these and other IIH symptoms, but at lower frequencies. Several conditions previously associated with IIH were no more common in patients than controls including iron deficiency anemia, thyroid disease, pregnancy, antibiotic intake, and use of oral contraceptives. We conclude that previous studies of IIH, mostly uncontrolled and retrospective, have underestimated the frequency of symptoms in IIH patients and reported chance and spurious associations with common medical conditions and medications. The profile of a young obese woman with headaches and either TVO or ICN should alert the clinician to the diagnosis of IIH, especially when the symptoms occur daily.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Symptoms and disease associations in idiopathic intracranial hypertension (pseudotumor cerebri): A case‐control study
- Creators
- Vincent Giuseffi - Tulane UniversityMichael WallPaul Z SiegelPatricio B Rojas
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Neurology, Vol.41(2 Part 1), pp.239-239
- DOI
- 10.1212/WNL.41.2_Part_1.239
- PMID
- 1992368
- ISSN
- 0028-3878
- eISSN
- 1526-632X
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/1991
- Academic Unit
- Neurology; Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984187176002771
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