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Nervous System Diseases > Central Nervous System Diseases > Brain Diseases > Intracranial Hypotension

Preferred term

Intracranial Hypotension  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Cerebrospinal Fluid Hypovolemia
  • Cerebrospinal Fluid Hypovolemias
  • Essential Intracranial Hypotension
  • Fluid Hypovolemia, Cerebrospinal
  • Fluid Hypovolemias, Cerebrospinal
  • Hypotension, Essential Intracranial
  • Hypotension, Secondary Intracranial
  • Hypovolemia, Cerebrospinal Fluid
  • Hypovolemias, Cerebrospinal Fluid
  • Intracranial Hypotension, Essential
  • Intracranial Hypotension, Secondary
  • Secondary Intracranial Hypotension

Note

  • do not confuse with INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; coord IM with disease /physiopathol (IM) causing or caused by intracranial hypotension

Scope note

  • Reduction of CEREBROSPINAL FLUID pressure characterized clinically by ORTHOSTATIC HEADACHE and occasionally by an ABDUCENS NERVE PALSY; HEARING LOSS; NAUSEA; neck stiffness, and other symptoms. This condition may be spontaneous or secondary to CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEAK; SPINAL PUNCTURE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; DEHYDRATION; UREMIA; trauma (see also CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA); and other processes. Chronic hypotension may be associated with subdural hematomas (see HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL) or hygromas. (From Semin Neurol 1996 Mar;16(1):5-10; Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, pp637-8)

History note

  • 1998

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D019585

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