Fluoroscopically-guided epidural blood patch for spontaneous intracranial hypotension

Abstract

We present three patients with spontaneous intracranial hypotension who failed conservative treatment and were treated with image-guided epidural blood patch close to the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak site. Each patient achieved significant long-term improvement of clinical symptoms and CSF leak related image findings.

Keywords

• Cerebrospinal spinal fluid leak
• connective tissue
• epidural blood patch
• fluoroscopy
• headache
• intracranial hypotension
• magnetic resonance imaging
• myelography