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background: spinal anesthesia is usually applied for urologic surgeries. postdural puncture headache (pdph) is among common complications which has not been reduced during last years despite all advances in the field of medicine. therapeutic effects of conventional therapy (paracetamol and novaphen) are being compared to intravenous meperidine in patients suffering from pdph. methods: one hundr...

post spinal puncture headache (psph) is a well known complication of spinal anesthesia. it occurs after spinal anesthesia induction due to dural and arachnoid puncture and has a significant effect on the patient’s postoperative well being. this manuscript is based on an observational study that runs on babol university of medical sciences and review of literatures about current concepts about t...

BACKGROUND The most common complication of lumbar puncture (LP) occurring in over thirty percent of patients is headache. The position after lumbar puncture, needle type and size, and volume of the extracted cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) have been evaluated as contributory factors in occurrence of post lumbar puncture headache (PLPH), but the position before lumbar puncture has not been evaluated. ...

how to cite this article: bani hashem a, heydarian f, gharavi m, khoshnod m. postdural puncture headache: incidence and risk factors in children followingintrathecal chemotherapy. iranian journal of child neurology 2012;6(1):19-22. objective to evaluate the incidence and risk factors of development of postdural puncture headache in children who had intrathecal chemotherapy injection. materials ...

AIMS Contrast-guided axillary vein puncture is commonly used for pacemaker or defibrillator lead implantation. Venous spasm during contrast-guided axillary vein puncture has been reported rarely. We investigated the incidence of venous spasm during contrast-guided axillary vein puncture and the impact of venous spasm on axillary vein puncture. METHODS AND RESULTS Seventy-four consecutive pati...