Journal article
Update on Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension
Neurologic Clinics, Vol.35(1), pp.45-57
02/2017
DOI: 10.1016/j.ncl.2016.08.004
PMCID: PMC5125521
PMID: 27886895
Abstract
Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) is a disorder of elevated intracranial pressure of unknown cause occurring predominantly in young women of childbearing age. The typical patient symptom profile is the presence of daily headache, pulse synchronous tinnitus, transient visual obscurations, and papilledema with its associated visual loss. Although surgical procedures are performed for those who fail medical therapy, their relative efficacy remains unclear. The main morbidity of IIH is from visual loss. This visual loss is present in most patients and can usually be reversed if recognized early in the patients’ course and treated.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Update on Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension
- Creators
- Michael Wall - University of Iowa College of Medicine, Veterans Administration Hospital, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Neurologic Clinics, Vol.35(1), pp.45-57
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.ncl.2016.08.004
- PMID
- 27886895
- PMCID
- PMC5125521
- NLM abbreviation
- Neurol Clin
- ISSN
- 0733-8619
- eISSN
- 1557-9875
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/2017
- Academic Unit
- Neurology; Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9983980061602771
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