Rapidly advancing pseudotumor cerebri associated with morbid obesity: an indication for gastric exclusion.
Although most cases of pseudotumor cerebri spontaneously remit or respond to brief courses of medical management, a minority will be chronic or recurrent and may be associated with progressive visual impairment. We have described a morbidly obese patient with rapidly advancing pseudotumor cerebri who had a gastric exclusion procedure, which resulted in weight loss and stabilization of the visual deficit.
D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007583:Jejunum / Q000601:surgery; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy; D011559:Pseudotumor Cerebri / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D012008:Recurrence; D013270:Stomach / Q000601:surgery*; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000209:etiology