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Case Review: 64 yr old & 38 yr old with postural headaches

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This is a patient who had, um, a postural headache, 64 year old lady,

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and essentially she had perinatal cysts. They were pretty suspicious on ct,

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but we really didn't see anything. It looked like it was leaking. Um,

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and then I, I did do, uh, a fat sat, um, T one after injecting gadolinium,

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and we did see a tiny leak from the one on the right here. Ultimately, um,

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she did end up undergoing blood patch for this type four, um, leak and, and,

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you know, did well, didn't need any additional treatments after that. Um,

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here's another similar example, except this is actually a type two leak.

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So this patient underwent Mr. Myography as well. Um,

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she did have a suspicious looking nerve root on the, on the fiesta imaging.

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There was just some irregularity, uh, of the, uh, nerve root sleeve itself.

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And then a small sort of collection outside the nerve root sleeve.

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And then we injected galene. We could see, uh, a small leak into that, um,

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into that area. And then when we did the digital subtraction myelogram,

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it was clearly extravasated from the fecal factor around the T 11 nerve root

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here on the right side. So this patient again, underwent blood patch, did well,

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didn't need any additional treatments.

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Faculty

Jeffrey Scott Pannell, MD

Director of Neurointerventional Surgery

University of California San Diego

Tags

Spine

Neuroradiology

MRI

Interventional

Idiopathic

CT

Brain