What Do Transgender Patients Teach Us About Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension?

Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), a condition of raised intracranial pressure, is characterised by headaches and visual disturbances. Its pathogenesis is currently unknown; however, dysregulation of androgens may be implicated. Here, the authors present a case of a 22-year-old patient unde...

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Autores principales: Hornby, Catherine, Mollan, Susan P., Mitchell, James, Markey, Keira Annie, Yangou, Andreas, Wright, Ben L. C., O’Reilly, Michael W., Sinclair, Alexandra J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2017
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5706971/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29238388
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01658107.2017.1316744
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author Hornby, Catherine
Mollan, Susan P.
Mitchell, James
Markey, Keira Annie
Yangou, Andreas
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Mollan, Susan P.
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Yangou, Andreas
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description Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), a condition of raised intracranial pressure, is characterised by headaches and visual disturbances. Its pathogenesis is currently unknown; however, dysregulation of androgens may be implicated. Here, the authors present a case of a 22-year-old patient undergoing female-to-male (FTM) gender reassignment who developed IIH shortly after commencing testosterone therapy. This interesting case presents the possibility of androgens having a pathogenic role in IIH.
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spelling pubmed-57069712017-12-11 What Do Transgender Patients Teach Us About Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension? Hornby, Catherine Mollan, Susan P. Mitchell, James Markey, Keira Annie Yangou, Andreas Wright, Ben L. C. O’Reilly, Michael W. Sinclair, Alexandra J. Neuroophthalmology Case Reports Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), a condition of raised intracranial pressure, is characterised by headaches and visual disturbances. Its pathogenesis is currently unknown; however, dysregulation of androgens may be implicated. Here, the authors present a case of a 22-year-old patient undergoing female-to-male (FTM) gender reassignment who developed IIH shortly after commencing testosterone therapy. This interesting case presents the possibility of androgens having a pathogenic role in IIH. Taylor & Francis 2017-05-10 /pmc/articles/PMC5706971/ /pubmed/29238388 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01658107.2017.1316744 Text en Published with license by Taylor & Francis. http://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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What Do Transgender Patients Teach Us About Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension?
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