A pediatric patient with recurrent pseudotumor cerebri and vitamin B12 deficiency.
Pseudotumor cerebri is a syndrome of increased intracranial pressure, normal cerebrospinal fluid values, and a normal cerebral ventricles on brain imaging studies. A patient with a diagnosis of pseudotumor cerebri was admitted to the authors' hospital twice within a 2.5-year interval and treated with vitamin B12 (vit-B12). At the second admission she also presented with a cerebral venous thrombosis that might have been explained by vit-B12 deficiency, homocysteinemia, and an increased level of lipoprotein-a.
Yetgin
Sevgi
S
Division of Hematology, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey. yetgins@superonline.com
Derman
Orhan
O
Dogan
Muhsin
M
D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020138:Hyperhomocysteinemia; D020767:Intracranial Thrombosis / Q000209:etiology; D017270:Lipoprotein(a); D011559:Pseudotumor Cerebri / Q000209:etiology*; D012008:Recurrence; D012074:Remission Induction; D020246:Venous Thrombosis / Q000209:etiology; D014805:Vitamin B 12 / Q000627:therapeutic use; D014806:Vitamin B 12 Deficiency / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy
D017270:Lipoprotein(a); D014805:Vitamin B 12