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Post‐delivery postural headache: not always a classical post‐dural puncture headache
Author(s) -
Eede H. Vanden,
Hoffmann V. L. H.,
Vercauteren M. P.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
acta anaesthesiologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1399-6576
pISSN - 0001-5172
DOI - 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2007.01331.x
Subject(s) - medicine , epidural blood patch , surgery , post dural puncture headache , anesthesia , complication , spinal anesthesia
We report a parturient complaining of headache after spinal and epidural labour analgesia with neurological deterioration following an epidural blood patch. Further investigation revealed a medulloblastoma within the fourth ventricle. The patient underwent an operation 4 days after the diagnosis, but died 2 years later. The consequences of the use of neuraxial analgesia and epidural blood patch in the treatment of post‐dural puncture headache in this kind of pathology are discussed.