Collapsed superior ophthalmic veins in patients with spontaneous intracranial hypotension

Neurology. 2003 Nov 11;61(9):1265-7. doi: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000092022.95447.93.

Abstract

The authors measured the average diameter of bilateral superior ophthalmic veins (SOV) in 13 patients with spontaneous intracranial hypotension (SIH) on contrast-enhanced, coronal, T1-weighted MRI. Compared with sex- and age-matched neurology inpatients with normal CSF pressure, the SIH group had a smaller SOV diameter (0.90 vs 1.85 mm, p < 0.001), which partly reversed after treatment (1.09 vs 0.90 mm, p = 0.045, n = 7). Collapsed SOV might provide an additional MRI finding for SIH.

Publication types

  • Clinical Trial
  • Controlled Clinical Trial

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Eye / blood supply*
  • Female
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Headache / etiology
  • Humans
  • Intracranial Hypotension / complications
  • Intracranial Hypotension / diagnosis*
  • Intracranial Hypotension / physiopathology*
  • Intracranial Pressure
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Reference Values
  • Vascular Patency*
  • Veins / physiopathology*