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When should CT-guided blood patch be considered for patients with spontaneous intracranial hypotension headache?

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Neurology · University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

First of all, I think the epidural blood patch for Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension (SIH) should always be CT-guided and not XR-guided or "blind", whenever possible. And, while headache is present almost always, and the vast majority of the time the headache is orthostatic, the SIH syndrome is n...

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