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F43, RH, dog walker, lives on her own, no significant pmh, non smoker, presents with 1 year hx gradually worsening h/a, worse in the morning and relieved with vomiting, accompanied the last month by visual disturbances in the form of flashing lights, o/e intact neurologically except bilateral papilloedema
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Abbreviations
- AqS:
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Aqueductal stenosis
- CSF:
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Cerebrospinal fluid
- ETV:
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Endoscopic third ventriculostomy
- hx:
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History
- h/a:
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Headache
- IIH:
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Idiopathic intracranial hypertension
- ICP:
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Intracranial pressure
- n/v:
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Nausea and vomiting
- MRI:
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Magnetic resonance imaging
- MRI (T2 Sagittal CISS):
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Magnetic resonance T2 weighted imaging with a constructive interference in steady state (type of CSF flow study)
- VPS:
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Ventriculo-peritoneal shunt
Evidence
Kulkarni AV, Riva-Cambrin J, Browd SR. Use of the ETV Success Score to explain the variation in reported endoscopic third ventriculostomy success rates among published case series of childhood hydrocephalus. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2011;7(2):143–6. https://doi.org/10.3171/2010.11.PEDS10296.
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Tolias, C.M., Giamouriadis, A., Hogg, F.R.A., Ghimire, P. (2019). Aqueduct Stenosis. In: Neurosurgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98234-2_25
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