Idiopathic intracranial hypertension

J Neuroophthalmol. 2004 Jun;24(2):138-45. doi: 10.1097/00041327-200406000-00009.

Abstract

The syndrome of intracranial hypertension without structural brain or cerebrospinal fluid abnormalities and without identifiable cause, now most appropriately termed idiopathic intracranial hypertension, was described over a century ago. Although the pathogenesis of this condition remains unknown, diagnostic and therapeutic developments during the past two decades have substantially advanced patient management.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adrenal Cortex Hormones / therapeutic use
  • Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors / therapeutic use
  • Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts
  • Decompression, Surgical
  • Diet Therapy
  • Diuretics / therapeutic use
  • Humans
  • Optic Nerve / surgery
  • Prognosis
  • Pseudotumor Cerebri / diagnosis*
  • Pseudotumor Cerebri / physiopathology
  • Pseudotumor Cerebri / therapy*
  • Spinal Puncture
  • Vision, Ocular

Substances

  • Adrenal Cortex Hormones
  • Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors
  • Diuretics