title: Endovascular Interventions for Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension and Venous Tinnitus: New Horizons.
abstract: Pulsatile tinnitus from intracranial venous abnormalities is an uncommon cause of pulse synchronous tinnitus. Endovascular therapies may have applications in many of these disease conditions. They have the advantage of being minimally invasive and may selectively eliminate the site of turbulence. Venous stenting has been used successfully to treat venous stenoses with low complication rates and high success rates in patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension though randomized controlled data are lacking. Careful exclusion of other causes of tinnitus should be performed before consideration for surgical or endovascular treatment of presumed causative lesions of venous tinnitus.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA. Electronic address: fhui2@jhmi.edu.
authors.forename: Ferdinand K
authors.initials: FK
authors.lastname: Hui
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Mayfield Clinic and Cincinnati Children's Hospital, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45209, USA.
authors.forename: Todd
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Abruzzo
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Northwestern University, IL 60611, USA; Department of Neurology, Northwestern University, IL 60611, USA; Department of Neurological Surgery, Northwestern University, IL 60611, USA.
authors.forename: Sameer A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Ansari
mesh_terms: D057510:Endovascular Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D011559:Pseudotumor Cerebri / Q000150:complications*; D015607:Stents; D014012:Tinnitus / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery*
keywords: Endovascular intervention; Intracranial hypertension; Venous tinnitus