Cranial MRI predicts outcome of spontaneous intracranial hypotension
- 12 April 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Neurology
- Vol. 64 (7), 1282-1284
- https://doi.org/10.1212/01.wnl.0000156906.84165.c0
Abstract
The outcome of spontaneous intracranial hypotension has been unpredictable. The results of initial MRI were correlated to outcome of treatment in 33 patients with spontaneous intracranial hypotension. A good outcome was obtained in 25 (97%) of 26 patients with an abnormal MRI vs only 1 (14%) of 7 patients with a normal MRI (p = 0.00004). These findings show that normal initial MRI is predictive of poor outcome in spontaneous intracranial hypotension.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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