title: Idiopathic intracranial hypertension following deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease.
abstract: Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) is a syndrome characterized by an increased intracranial pressure of unknown origin arising mainly in overweight females. The typical symptoms of IIH are headaches and papilledema associated with visual disorders, which can often evolve to blindness. We describe the first patient who developed a clinical syndrome related to an IIH following a bilateral subthalamic deep brain stimulation (DBS) procedure for Parkinson's disease with the particularity that the clinical expression of the IIH syndrome was atypical because of the presence of intracerebral electrodes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital St-Luc, Avenue Hippocrate, 10, 1200, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Patrice
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Finet
authors.forename: Maxime
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Delavallée
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Raftopoulos
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D046690:Deep Brain Stimulation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000628:therapy*; D011559:Pseudotumor Cerebri / Q000209:etiology*