Cerebrospinal fluid dynamics in pediatric pseudotumor cerebri syndrome

Brain Imaging in Pediatric Pseudotumor Cerebri Syndrome

Pseudotumor cerebri syndrome (PTCS) is an umbrella term used for the constellation of symptoms caused by increased intracranial pressure (ICP) without hydrocephalus, spaceoccupying lesion, or anomalies of brain parenchyma and with a normal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) composition.1 PTCS has a reported incidence of 0.9 per 100,000 in the general population, but it rises to 19 per 100,000 in obese w...

Pediatric pseudotumor cerebri: descriptive epidemiology.

OBJECTIVE To determine the epidemiological profile for pediatric pseudotumor cerebri. METHODS A retrospective case series was identified from a geographically limited region of 205,765 children aged 2-15 years at the only tertiary care pediatric hospital with all pediatric neurologists and ophthalmologists. Health records identified 35 children with ICD9 code 348.2 (benign intracranial hypert...

Pediatric idiopathic intracranial hypertension (pseudotumor cerebri).

Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), or pseudotumor cerebri, is a condition of elevated intracranial pressure in the absence of clinical, laboratory or radiological evidence of an intracranial space occupying lesion that can occur in the pediatric population. While IIH is more commonly recognized as a disorder of adults, it affects children of all ages and can have distinctive characteri...

Cerebrospinal fluid oestrone in pseudotumour cerebri.

The concentration of oestrone in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from obese young women with pseudotumour cerebri was much greater than predicted and found in normal subjects. Each woman with pseudotumour cerebri, and a high level of CSF oestrone and a CSF protein less than 0·2 g/l, had clinical improvement when treated with an 800 calorie/day diet and dexamethasone 2 mg/day.

Pseudo-pseudotumor cerebri.