Complications following large-volume epidural blood patches for postdural puncture headache. Lumbar subdural hematoma and arachnoiditis: initial cause or final effect?

Journal of Clinical Anesthesia

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 355-359

  Riley, Cara A ^a   Spiegel, Joan E ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidural blood patch, large volume; Postdural puncture headache; Pregnancy; Subdural hematoma

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; BUTALBITAL PLUS CAFFEINE PLUS PARACETAMOL; CAFFEINE; CHLOROPROCAINE; FENTANYL; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; ARACHNOIDITIS; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BLOOD PATCH; BLOOD VOLUME; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; HUMAN; LARGE VOLUME EPIDURAL BLOOD PATCH; LEG PAIN; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS INJURY; LUMBOSACRAL RADICULOPATHY; NERVE INJURY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTDURAL PUNCTURE HEADACHE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULOPATHY; SPINAL HEMATOMA; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ARACHNOIDITIS; BLOOD PATCH, EPIDURAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL, SPINAL; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; POST-DURAL PUNCTURE HEADACHE; PREGNANCY; RADICULOPATHY; SACRUM; SPINAL PUNCTURE;

EID: 69349083938     PISSN: 09528180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2008.08.028     Document Type: Article

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