Duke University Medical Center is hosting a half-day conference for health professionals on Intracranial Hypotension
Date: Saturday, March 23, 2019
Location: Raleigh, NC
This half-day multidisciplinary course on Intracranial Hypotension secondary to spinal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak is intended to inform local neurologists, headache specialists, and other health care professionals including neurosurgeons, anesthesiologists, neuroradiologists, and pain management physicians about the varied presentations and the current state of diagnosis and treatment for this disorder. Intracranial Hypotension can present as migraine, chronic migraine, new daily persistent headache, and Chiari I malformations and can be iatrogenic in origin as can be seen with lumbar punctures, epidural catheter placement and epidural injections. The approach to the diagnosis with CT guided lumbar puncture, myelogram, and minimally invasive techniques including fibrin glue and bloodpatching as well as indications for surgical intervention will be discussed. Invited speakers include neuroradiology, neurology-ophthalmology, neurosurgery, and orthopedic surgery.
Intracranial Hypotension – the Duke Experience – Conference Brochure
** Thanks to the team at Duke for their leadership in providing more education on the diagnosis and treatment of intracranial hypotension. We were honored to support this conference with an educational grant **