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Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension and PostlumbarPuncture Headache
Author(s) -
Loh Yince,
Labutta Robert J.,
Urban Edward S.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
headache: the journal of head and face pain
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.14
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1526-4610
pISSN - 0017-8748
DOI - 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2004.04035.x
Subject(s) - medicine , cerebrospinal fluid , intracranial pressure , raised intracranial pressure , cerebrospinal fluid pressure , anesthesia , pseudotumor cerebri , blood pressure
Idiopathic intracranial hypertension and low cerebrospinal pressure are 2 conditions that are thought to be on opposite ends of the cerebrospinal pressure spectrum. Headache is the prominent component of both conditions. We describe a patient whose evaluation for idiopathic intracranial hypertension resulted in a postlumbar puncture headache. Although not entirely intuitive, we suggest that the 2 conditions can be present in the same patient.