Familial idiopathic intracranial hypertension with spinal and radicular pain.
OBJECTIVE
To describe a mother and her 2 sons affected by idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), associated in the sons with root irritation symptom. Unlike the other 4 families reported previously, obesity was not present in our patients.


METHODS
Case reports.


METHODS
Department of pediatrics in a university school of Medicine, Naples, Italy.


METHODS
A mother (aged 36 years) and her 2 sons (aged 14 and 9 years) developed IIH at different times. Neuroimaging showed an empty sella in the mother, while IIH was associated with spinal and radicular pain in her 2 sons. The mother and the younger son developed permanent visual loss.


CONCLUSIONS
Ophthalmologic follow-up in our patients indicates that IIH is a chronic disease. Surgical treatment should be considered an option.
Santinelli
R
R
Department of Pediatrics, Second Pediatric Clinic, Second University of Naples, Italy.
Tolone
C
C
Toraldo
R
R
Canino
G
G
De Simone
A
A
D'Avanzo
M
M
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019586:Intracranial Hypertension / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000235:genetics*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D011128:Polyradiculopathy / Q000209:etiology*; D012658:Sella Turcica / Q000473:pathology; D013131:Spine; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000209:etiology