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Subdural hygroma presenting as a potential late complication of epidural anesthesia


Obstetrics & Gynecology International Journal
Dmitri Chamchad,1 Maria Lebedev,2 Jay Horrow3

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Abstract

Postpartum headache in parturients receiving labor epidural analgesia occurs not infrequently. Much less often, spontaneous CSF leaks can cause intracranial hypotension and orthostatic headache. Although neuroimaging can aid differential diagnosis, conservative treatment and epidural blood patch make sense for temporally-related symptoms. We report a case of recurrence of orthostatic headache one month following successful treatment of post-dural puncture headache with epidural blood patch.

Keywords

epidural, orthostatic headache, subdural hygroma

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