title: Acute surgical management in idiopathic intracranial hypertension.
abstract: Idiopathic intracranial hypertension is a headache syndrome with progressive symptoms of raised intracranial pressure. Most commonly, it is a slow process where surveillance and medical management are the main treatment modalities. We describe herein an acute presentation with bilateral sixth nerve palsies, papilloedema and visual deterioration, where acute surgical intervention was a vision-saving operation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. zakariaz@tcd.ie
authors.forename: Zaitun
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zakaria
authors.forename: Eoin
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fenton
authors.forename: Muhammad Taufiq
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Sattar
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011559:Pseudotumor Cerebri / Q000601:surgery*