title: Fifteen-minute consultation: the child with idiopathic intracranial hypertension.
abstract: Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) is a rare condition where intracranial hypertension is found in the context of normal brain parenchyma and no mass lesion, ventriculomegaly, underlying infection, or malignancy. Our understanding of this condition has greatly improved in the recent years with neuroimaging features and normal values for lumbar puncture opening pressure now well defined. This article provides a review of IIH in children and revised diagnostic criteria based on recent evidence and published opinion. We have also presented an algorithmic approach to the child with possible IIH.
authors.affiliation: Fraser of Allander Neurosciences Unit, Royal Hospital of Sick Children, Glasgow, UK.
authors.forename: Mohamed O E
authors.initials: MO
authors.lastname: Babiker
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatrics, Pinderfield General Hospital, Wakefield, UK.
authors.forename: Manish
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Prasad
authors.affiliation: Fraser of Allander Neurosciences Unit, Royal Hospital of Sick Children, Glasgow, UK.
authors.forename: Stewart
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: MacLeod
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatric Neurology, Nottingham Children's Hospital, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK.
authors.forename: Gabriel
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Chow
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatric Neurology, Nottingham Children's Hospital, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
authors.forename: William P
authors.initials: WP
authors.lastname: Whitehouse
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006261:Headache / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D019586:Intracranial Hypertension / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000379:methods*
keywords: Benign Intracranial Hypertension; Cerebrospinal fluid; Pseudotumour Cerebri; papilloedema