Coma resulting from spontaneous intracranial hypotension treated with the epidural blood patch in the Trendelenburg position pre-medicated with acetazolamide

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 111, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 699-702

  Ferrante, Enrico ^a   Arpino, Ines ^a   Citterio, Alberto ^a   Savino, Anna ^a  

^a OSPEDALE NIGUARDA CA GRANDA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acetazolamide; Coma; Epidural blood patch; Headache; Spontaneous intracranial hypotension; Subdural haematoma

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PATCH; BODY POSITION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; LIQUORRHEA; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTURAL HEADACHE; PREMEDICATION; STUPOR; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TRENDELENBURG POSITION;

ACETAZOLAMIDE; BLOOD PATCH, EPIDURAL; CARBONIC ANHYDRASE INHIBITORS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; COMA; HEAD-DOWN TILT; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL, CHRONIC; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREMEDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 68949166175     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2009.06.001     Document Type: Article

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