Perioperative Diagnosis and Anaesthetic Management of Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension in Pregnancy: A Case Report

Idiopathic intracranial hypertension is characterised by increased intracranial pressure of unknown aetiology. It is usually seen among obese women who are of childbearing age. With an incidence of 0.9 per 100,000 in women of childbearing age, the incidence in obese women is as high as 19.3 per 100,...

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Autores principales: Subedi, Prabin, Sharma, Mona, Yogi, Prajwala, Giri, Drishti
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Journal of the Nepal Medical Association 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10231526/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37203943
http://dx.doi.org/10.31729/jnma.8081
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author Subedi, Prabin
Sharma, Mona
Yogi, Prajwala
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description Idiopathic intracranial hypertension is characterised by increased intracranial pressure of unknown aetiology. It is usually seen among obese women who are of childbearing age. With an incidence of 0.9 per 100,000 in women of childbearing age, the incidence in obese women is as high as 19.3 per 100,000. Here, we represent the case of a 31-year-old, non-obese primigravida with hypothyroidism which was diagnosed as idiopathic intracranial hypertension during pregnancy. This patient, was managed with multi-disciplinary considerations so as to avoid complications in perioperative period.
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spelling pubmed-102315262023-06-01 Perioperative Diagnosis and Anaesthetic Management of Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension in Pregnancy: A Case Report Subedi, Prabin Sharma, Mona Yogi, Prajwala Giri, Drishti JNMA J Nepal Med Assoc Case Report Idiopathic intracranial hypertension is characterised by increased intracranial pressure of unknown aetiology. It is usually seen among obese women who are of childbearing age. With an incidence of 0.9 per 100,000 in women of childbearing age, the incidence in obese women is as high as 19.3 per 100,000. Here, we represent the case of a 31-year-old, non-obese primigravida with hypothyroidism which was diagnosed as idiopathic intracranial hypertension during pregnancy. This patient, was managed with multi-disciplinary considerations so as to avoid complications in perioperative period. Journal of the Nepal Medical Association 2023-03 2023-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC10231526/ /pubmed/37203943 http://dx.doi.org/10.31729/jnma.8081 Text en © The Author(s) 2018. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Subedi, Prabin
Sharma, Mona
Yogi, Prajwala
Giri, Drishti
Perioperative Diagnosis and Anaesthetic Management of Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension in Pregnancy: A Case Report
title Perioperative Diagnosis and Anaesthetic Management of Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension in Pregnancy: A Case Report
title_full Perioperative Diagnosis and Anaesthetic Management of Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension in Pregnancy: A Case Report
title_fullStr Perioperative Diagnosis and Anaesthetic Management of Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension in Pregnancy: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Perioperative Diagnosis and Anaesthetic Management of Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension in Pregnancy: A Case Report
title_short Perioperative Diagnosis and Anaesthetic Management of Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension in Pregnancy: A Case Report
title_sort perioperative diagnosis and anaesthetic management of idiopathic intracranial hypertension in pregnancy: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10231526/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37203943
http://dx.doi.org/10.31729/jnma.8081
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