Pseudotumor cerebri and optic nerve sheath decompression. Ophthalmology. 2000; 107(10):1907-1912. [PubMed: 11013197]Banta JT, Farris BK. Pseudotumor cerebri and optic nerve sheath decompression. Ophthalmology 2000;107:1907–12.Banta JT, Farris BK: Pseudotumor cerebri and optic nerve sheath ...
optic nerve decompressionpostoperative complicationsIn 15 out of 50 patients with pseudotumor cerebri a fenestration of the retrobulbar optic nerve dural sheath was carried out in order to prevent functional damage due to papilledema. Full and permanent regression of the papilledema resulted in 24 out ...
You'll also need regular vision tests. Your eye doctor will check whether you have any blind spots in your vision or swelling of the optic nerve in the back of youreye. These are signs of pseudotumor cerebri. Treatment Getting treated as soon as possible can help you keep your vision. On...
Details the diagnosis and treatment of a woman who presented with brief bilateral blackouts of vision. Pseudomotor cerebri; Failure to improve after medical therapy; Fenestration of her left optic nerve sheath; Postoperative follow-up; More.JAMA: Journal of the Americ...
"Normal Pressure" Pseudotumor CerebriGreen, Jeffrey P. M.D.; Newman, Nancy J. M.D.; Stowe, Zachary N. M.D.; Nemeroff, Charles B. M.D., Ph.D.Abstract We present a case report of a patient with clinical features suggestive of pseudotumor cerebri (PTC), without a documented elevated ...
Pseudotumor cerebri is a clinical syndrome in which signs and, sometimes, symptoms of raised intracranial pressure are present hut in which mental and neurological function are unaffected. Therefore, the diagnosis is reached after mass and other structural causes of raised pressure have been excluded....
pseudotumor cerebriFoster Kennedy syndromepapilledemaoptic discThe authors report a patient with optic atrophy in one eye and optic disc edema in the other, the Foster Kennedy sign. Cranial magnetic resonance imaging was normal except for a partial empty sella. Lumbar puncture revealed increased ...
Benign intracranial hypertension-pseudotumor cerebri (PTC) is a rare disease in childhood. We report about our experience in five children with PTC, aged two to ten years. The main symptoms were headache, palsy of VI.th cranial nerve and papilledema. Neuroradiologic studies showed normal ventricles...
The overall incidence of pseudotumor cerebri (PTC) has been estimated at 1 per 100,000 in the general population, with an increase to 19 per 100,000 among overweight patients. About 25% of affected patients are asymptomatic until they present with vision loss. We hypothesized that PTC would ...
Mauriello JA, Shaderowfsky P, Gizzi M, Frohman L: Management of visual loss after optic nerve sheath decompression in patients with pseudotumor cerebri . Ophthalmology 1995, 102 :441–445.Mauriello JA Jr., Shadcrowfsky P, Gizzi M, Frohman L, Management of visual loss afte...