title: A case of benign intracranial hypertension in pregnancy.
abstract: We describe a 30-year-old patient who developed benign intracranial hypertension at 34 weeks in her second pregnancy and was treated both medically and by decompression of the perioptic meninges; her visual symptoms and signs remained static and she was delivered at 35 weeks by Caesarean section for poor progress in an induced labour.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002585:Cesarean Section; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D011559:Pseudotumor Cerebri / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000209:etiology