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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief:
Overview
Natural History, Complications, and Prognosis
Natural History
The symptoms of pseudotumor cerebri usually develop in the mean age of 31 mostly in obese women with headache as the most common presenting sign. the other symtoms of increased intracranial pressure may develop in patients such as Transient visual obscuration[1][2], Pulse synchronous tinnitus[2][3], Photopsias[2], neck and back pain and stiffness[1][4], retrobulbar pain[5], horizontal diplopia[6], visual loss[1]. If left untreated, vision loss may occur which is the most serious complication of this disease.
Complications
- Common complications of [disease name] include:
- [Complication 1]
- [Complication 2]
- [Complication 3]
Prognosis
The prognosis varies in IIH patients. Treatment of IIH patients may lead to improvement or stabilization but in many of them we have persistent papilledema and increased intracranial hypertension. Some of these patients have a more progressive course which leads to vision loss.(9 ta 11) Even in patients who undergo recovery there is 8 to 38 percent of symptom recurrence.(12) The presence of high grade papilledema or transient visual obscurations is a sign indicating higher risk of permanent vision loss in patient.(6)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Wall M, George D (February 1991). "Idiopathic intracranial hypertension. A prospective study of 50 patients". Brain. 114 ( Pt 1A): 155–80. PMID 1998880.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Giuseffi V, Wall M, Siegel PZ, Rojas PB (February 1991). "Symptoms and disease associations in idiopathic intracranial hypertension (pseudotumor cerebri): a case-control study". Neurology. 41 (2 ( Pt 1)): 239–44. PMID 1992368.
- ↑ Sismanis A, Butts FM, Hughes GB (January 1990). "Objective tinnitus in benign intracranial hypertension: an update". Laryngoscope. 100 (1): 33–6. doi:10.1288/00005537-199001000-00008. PMID 2293699.
- ↑ Lessell S (1992). "Pediatric pseudotumor cerebri (idiopathic intracranial hypertension)". Surv Ophthalmol. 37 (3): 155–66. PMID 1475750.
- ↑ Wall M (December 1990). "The headache profile of idiopathic intracranial hypertension". Cephalalgia. 10 (6): 331–5. doi:10.1046/j.1468-2982.1990.1006331.x. PMID 2289234.
- ↑ Chari C, Rao NS (October 1991). "Benign intracranial hypertension--its unusual manifestations". Headache. 31 (9): 599–600. PMID 1774176.