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Intracranial Hypotensive Crisis From an Insidious Spinal Cerebrospinal Fluid-Venous Fistula: A Case Report.

Lucas P CarlstromSoliman OushyChristopher S GraffeoAvital PerryEelco F WijdicksMohamad BydonJamie Van GompelDavid G Piepgras
Published in: Operative neurosurgery (Hagerstown, Md.) (2021)
In our patient, worsening episodes of confusion, postural headaches, and autonomic instability developed due to SIH, which induced profound downward displacement and compression of the diencephalon and brain stem, and accompanied by subsequent obstructive hydrocephalus. Diagnostic persistence identified the CVF, which had caused the complex multifold pathophysiology and clinical presentation. If suspicion remains high for CVF, persistent spinal imaging, particularly with dynamic myelography, may be crucial.
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