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ArticleCritical care (London, England)2008

Ocular sonography in patients with raised intracranial pressure: the papilloedema revisited.

Thomas Geeraerts, Jacques Duranteau, Dan Benhamou

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Article in Critical care (London, England), 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04603118 (Comparison of Optic Nerve Sheath Diameters Measured by Optic Ultrasonography Before and After Lumbar Puncture in Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension Patients), which is not on this map. Cited by 29 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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NCT04603118 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2014, after this paper: background citation

Comparison of Optic Nerve Sheath Diameters Measured by Optic Ultrasonography Before and After Lumbar Puncture in Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension Patients

TypeinterventionalSponsorEge UniversityRan2014 to 2016Enrolled47ConditionsPseudotumor CerebriArmsOptic ultrasonography, Lumbar puncture
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Thomas GeeraertsUniversity Department of Anaesthesia, Addenbrooke's Hospital and University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, UK. thgeeraerts@hotmail.com
Jacques Duranteau
Dan Benhamou

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Invasive devices are recommended for the early detection of raised intracranial pressure (ICP) after severe traumatic brain injury. Owing to contraindication or local issues, however, invasive ICP monitoring is not always possible. Moreover, a significant proportion of moderate traumatic brain injury patients (managed without invasive ICP) will develop raised ICP. Reliable noninvasive ICP techniques are therefore needed. Soldatos and colleagues report the usefulness of ocular sonography in the diagnosis of raised ICP. Focusing on cerebrospinal fluid accumulation around the retrobulbar optic nerve, they show interesting results for the optic nerve sheath diameter in the diagnosis of raised ICP. If confirmed by further studies, and despite important limitations related to sonography, this technique could serve as a screening test in patients at risk for raised ICP, when invasive monitoring is not possible or is not clearly recommended.

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HumansIntracranial HypertensionOptic NerveUltrasonography, Doppler, Transcranial

Identifiers

PMID18495051
PMCPMC2481446

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