Which and what headache were we treating? Epidural blood patch for atypical headache following obstetric epidural anaesthesia.
We present a case of headache following epidural anaesthesia for caesarean section. The patient did not exhibit the classical features of post dural puncture headache and the cause was uncertain. The headache was complicated by post partum seizure and a history of pregnancy-induced hypertension. A diagnostic lumbar puncture had to be done to exclude meningitis as she had a raised white blood count. An epidural blood patch performed 12 days post partum resolved the headache immediately.
Department of Anaesthesia, University of Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. chiucl@medicine.med.um.edu.my
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