Pseudotumor cerebri occurs when pressure inside the skull (intracranial pressure) increases without an obvious cause. Symptoms are similar to a brain tumor but found no tumor. This condition is commonly referred to as idiopathic intracranial hypertension (H).
Pseudotumor cerebri more common in children and adults, but the most commonly experienced are obese woman who was prolific childbearing.
Increased intracranial pressure associated with pseudotumor cerebri can also cause swelling of the optic nerve and loss of vision.
Cause
Experts suspect pseudotumor cerebri nothing to do with the excess amount of cerebrospinal fluid within the skull. In addition, the liquid produced by the brain will eventually be absorbed into the bloodstream. It could be an increase in intracranial pressure that causes pseudotumor cerebri is also the result of a disturbance in the absorption process.
According to some recent studies, most patients with pseudotumor cerebri known to have narrowing (stenosis) at two sine magnitude in the brain (transverse sinuses). But researchers are also not sure whether the narrowing is one of the causes of pseudotumor cerebri or not.
Symptom
- Moderate to severe headaches that come from the back of the eye and worsen with eye movements.
- Ringing in the ears along with the patient's heartbeat.
- Nausea, vomiting or dizziness
- Blurred vision or dimming
- Was blind for a few seconds, can occur in one or both eyes (visual obscurations)
- Hard look sideways
- Double vision (diplopia)
- Like seeing a flash of light when there is no source of light (photopsia)
- Neck pain, shoulder or back
Treatment
- Operations that optic nerve sheath fenestration and installation of spinal fluid shunt.
- Drugs such as glaucoma drug that is acetazolamide, a diuretic and migraine drug.
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