ArticleJournal of observational pain medicine2014
Stent-Mediated Redistribution of Cerebral Venous Outflow in the Treatment of Severe Intractable Headache: A Case Report.
Article in Journal of observational pain medicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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3 citing papers in PubMed.
- A proposed framework for cerebral venous congestion.The neuroradiology journal · 2022Article
- A paradigm for chronic fatigue syndrome: caught between idiopathic intracranial hypertension and spontaneous intracranial hypotension; caused by cranial venous outflow obstruction.Fatigue : biomedicine, health & behavior · 2021Article
- Headache, Cerebrospinal Fluid Leaks, and Pseudomeningoceles after Resection of Vestibular Schwannomas: Efficacy of Venous Sinus Stenting Suggests Cranial Venous Outflow Compromise as a Unifying Pathophysiological Mechanism.Journal of neurological surgery. Part B, Skull base · 2019Article
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Abstract
We describe a patient with multiple symptoms but whose primary complaint was of headache, in whom no firm diagnosis was made in two years, who was resistant to all treatment, until a markedly asymmetrical cranial venous outflow came to be regarded, not as normal variant anatomy but as fundamental to the clinical problem. Deliberately altering this anatomy in favour of a more symmetrical arrangement by stenting a hypoplastic transverse sinus brought about an immediate, profound and sustained clinical improvement. This result challenges the existing consensus on what is acceptable as normal in respect of cranial venous outflow. It raises intriguing questions about the relationship between neurological symptoms and the vagaries of cranial venous outflow anatomy. It suggests there may be new opportunities in the investigation of chronic headache.
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