MANAGEMENT OF OPTIC-NERVE DISORDERS .2. IDIOPATHIC INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION

Authors
BIOUSSE V NEWMAN NJ
Citation
V. Biousse et Nj. Newman, MANAGEMENT OF OPTIC-NERVE DISORDERS .2. IDIOPATHIC INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION, Medicamentos de actualidad, 33(1), 1997, pp. 19-24
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Journal title
Medicamentos de actualidad → ACNP
ISSN journal
00257656
Volume
33
Issue
1
Year of publication
1997
Pages
19 - 24
Database
ISI
SICI code
0025-7656(1997)33:1<19:MOOD.I>2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
Idiopathic intracranial hypertension is a disorder of raised intracran ial pressure found most commonly in obese women of reproductive age. T he most frequent symptom is headache and the most significant morbidit y is progressive Visual loss caused by prolonged papilledema and secon dary optic neuropathies. Management can be medical or surgical and is aimed at towering intracranial pressure, thereby relieving symptoms an d preventing permanent visual loss.