Conference Videos

Video replays from the 2023 Bridging the Gap Conference are shared below. The conference was hosted by the Spinal CSF Leak Foundation and UC Anschutz Medical Campus, on November 11, 2023, in Denver, Colorado.

Welcome

Opening Remarks (Dr. Andrew Callen)

SIH: ARRIVING AT A DIAGNOSIS

Patient Talk: Journey to a Diagnosis (Nick Stevens)

Provider Talk: Challenges in the Diagnosis of Intracranial Hypotension (Dr. Marius Birlea)

Provider Talk: Clinical Mimics of SIH (Dr. Deborah Friedman)

Patient Talk: Emotional Lability as a Normal Reaction to Abnormal Circumstances (Dr. John Reiman)

Provider Talk: Challenges in the Radiographic Diagnosis of Intracranial Hypotension (Dr. Jessica Houk)

Special Speaker: Navigating Spinal CSF Leak Care When You Are Not at a Major Referral Center (Dr. Jill Rau)

Special Speaker: A Clinical Care Model for Spinal CSF Leak (Dr. Andrew Callen)

TREATMENT: PERCUTANEOUS AND SURGICAL

Provider Talk: Epidural Blood Patch Basics (Dr. Ian Carroll)

Patient Voices: Epidural Blood Patches (Members of the spinal CSF leak community)

Provider Talk: The History of Surgical Treatment for Spinal CSF Leaks (Dr. Wouter Schievink)

Patient Talk: The Surgical Experience (Dr. Claudia Perez Sandhu)

The Scope of Surgery for CSF Leaks (Dr. Peter Lennarson)

POST-TREATMENT: RECOVERY, REBOUND SYMPTOMS, AND POTENTIAL RELAPSE

What is the Evidence for Post-Patch Care (Dr. Lalani Carlton Jones)

Patient Voices: Post-Patch Care and RIH (Members of the spinal CSF leak community)

Rebound Intracranial Hypertension: Clinical Presentation and Treatment (Dr. Prem Subramanian)

Patient Talk: Recovery is a Verb (Jen MacKenzie)

Provider Talk: The Approach to the Complex Patient (Dr. Ilene Ruhoy)

Patient Talk: On Living with a Persistent Leak (Jodi Ettenberg)

Patient Voices: Thoughts on Recovery (Members of the spinal CSF leak community)

Research Updates in Spinal CSF Leaks (Dr. Ian Carroll)

Patient Voices: What Doctors Should Know (Members of the spinal CSF leak community)

Video replays from the Fourth Cedars-Sinai Intracranial Hypotension Symposium, hosted by Cedars-Sinai in partnership with Spinal CSF Leak Foundation on Oct. 2, 2021, in Los Angeles, CA, are presented here.

Diagnosis of SIH: The Challenging but Critical First Step

Jeremy Cutsforth-Gregory, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Department of Neurology
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

The Varied Clinical Presentations of SIH

Dr. Deborah Friedman, MD, MPH
Professor of Neurology and Ophthalmology
Founding Director of Headache and Facial Pain Program
UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX

Current SIH diagnostic imaging (with leak classification)

Marcel Maya, MD
Neuroradiology
Professor & Co-Chair, Department of Imaging
Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, CA

Anatomy and pathogenesis of spinal CSF leaks

Wouter I. Schievink, MD – Course Director
Professor of Neurosurgery
Director, CSF Leak Program
Director, Vascular Neurosurgery
Department of Neurosurgery
Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, CA

Anatomy and pathogenesis of CSF-venous fistulas

Peter G. Kranz, MD
Associate Professor
Chief, Neuroradiology Division, Department of Radiology
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC

Approach to suspected SIH in centers without a dedicated SIH program

Jill C. Rau, MD, PhD
Neurologist – Headache Specialist
HonorHealth Neuroscience Institute, Scottsdale, AZ

Persistent or relapsing symptoms post-treatment

Abhay R. Moghekar, MBBS
Associate Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Otolaryngology
Research Director, Center for CSF Disorders
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD

Practical post-treatment considerations

Charles Louy, MD, PhD
Director, Inpatient Pain and Pediatric Pain Services
Assistant Director, Pain Management Fellowship Program
And Rachelle Tache, Nurse Practitioner, Department of Neurosurgery
Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, CA

Current percutaneous treatment approaches (by leak type)

Timothy J. Amrhein, MD
Associate Professor of Radiology
Director of Spine Intervention
Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC

Current surgical treatment of spinal CSF leaks (by leak type)

Wouter I. Schievink, MD – Course Director
Professor of Neurosurgery
Director, CSF Leak Program
Director, Vascular Neurosurgery
Department of Neurosurgery
Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, CA

Investigational: CT-guided fibrin glue for CSF-venous fistulas

Mark D. Mamlouk, MD
Director, TPMG Spinal CSF Leak Program
Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara, CA
Assistant Clinical Professor of Neuroradiology – Volunteer
UCSF, San Francisco, CA

Investigational: Transvenous embolization of CSF-venous fistulas

Waleed Brinjikji, MD
Interventional Neuroradiology and
Endovascular Neurosurgery
Departments of Neurosurgery & Radiology
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

Outcomes of EBP in patients who fail to meet ICHD3 diagnostic criteria

Ian Carroll, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Chief, Stanford CSF Leak Headache Program
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA

Selected video replays and slide sets from the 2018 Cedars-Sinai Intracranial Hypotension Symposium are presented here. The symposium was hosted by Cedars-Sinai in partnership with Spinal CSF Leak Foundation on October 13, 2018 at the Marina del Rey Marriott in Marina del Rey, CA.

Video replays and slide sets:

Ten Myths & Misconceptions about SIH

Peter G. Kranz, MD
Assistant Professor
Director of Spine Intervention Service
Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology
Duke University, Durham, NC
Slide set: SIH – 10 Myths and Misconceptions 2018

SIH: CSF Outflow Resistance & Other Objective Measures

Jürgen Beck, MD
Director, Department of Neurosurgery
Medical Center – University of Freiburg
Freiburg, Germany
Slide set: CSF outflow resistance + other objective measures 2018

SIH: ICP Monitoring

Abhay Moghekar, MBBS
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Research Director
Johns Hopkins Center for CSF Disorders
Baltimore, MD
Slide set: SIH – ICP Monitoring 2018

Slide sets only:

Slide set: SIH – The 1st 1111 Patients 2018

Wouter I. Schievink, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery
Director, Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak Program
Director, Vascular Neurosurgery Program
Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, CA

Slide set: SIH Mechanisms of Headache 2018

Stephen Silberstein, MD
Professor of Neurology
Director, Jefferson Headache Center
Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA

Slide set: Orthostatic Headaches DDX + Dx criteria SIH 2018

David Dodick, MD
Professor of Neurology
Medical Director of Headache Program
Medical Director of Sport Neurology and Concussion Program
Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ

Slide set: Rebound Intracranial Hypertension 2018

Deborah Friedman, MD, MPH
Professor of Neurology and Ophthalmology
Department of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics
Founding Director of Headache and Facial Pain Program
UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX

Slide set: SIH Imaging + Percutaneous Treatment 2018

M. Marcel Maya, MD
Co-chair, Department of Imaging;
S. Mark Taper Foundation Imaging Center
Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, CA

Slide set: SIH Percutaneous treatment at Cedars-Sinai 2018

Charles Louy, PhD, MD, MBA
Medical Director, Inpatient Pain Service
Associate Program Director, Pain Management Fellowship
Department of Anesthesiology,
Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, CA

Slide set: SIH Percutaneous treatment at Duke 2018

Linda Gray-Leithe, MD
Associate Professor
Division of Neuroradiology
Department of Radiology
Duke University, Durham, NC

Slide set: SIH Clinical Trials and Research Endeavors 2018

Timothy Amrhein, MD
Assistant Professor
Division of Neuroradiology
Department of Radiology
Duke University, Durham, NC

Slide set: SIH and or POTS 2018

Ian Carroll, MD, MS
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA

Slide set: SIH Pain Management 2018

Philip Peng, MBBS
Professor of Anesthesia, University of Toronto
Director of Research, Wasserman Pain Management Center, Mount Sinai Hospital
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Slide set: Intractable Headache 2018

Dr. Silberstein and Dr. Dodick addressed a common challenge: Persistent Symptoms Post-Treatment

Selected video replays and slide sets from patient track of the 2018 Cedars-Sinai Intracranial Hypotension Symposium are presented here. The symposium was hosted by Cedars-Sinai in partnership with Spinal CSF Leak Foundation on October 13, 2018 at the Marina del Rey Marriott in Marina del Rey, CA.

Video replays and slide sets:

Update on Intracranial Hypotension for Patients

Wouter Schievink, MD, Course Director
Professor of Neurosurgery; Director, Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak Program; Director, Vascular Neurosurgery Program
Department of Neurosurgery
Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, CA
Slide set: Update on Intracranial Hypotension for Patients

Integrative Approach for Patients with Intracranial Hypotension – part 1

Integrative Approach for Patients with Intracranial Hypotension – part 2

Connie Deline, MD, Course Director
Intracranial Hypotension Patient
Co-founder and VP, Spinal CSF Leak Foundation
Camp Hill, PA
Slide set: Integrative Approach for Patients with Intracranial Hypotension – part 1
Slide set: Integrative Approach for Patients with Intracranial Hypotension – part 2

Navigating the Social Security Disability and Long Term Disability Process

James Shea, PhD, JD
Social Security Disability Law
Law Office of James P. Shea, Los Angeles, CA
Slide set: Navigating the Social Security Disability and Long Term Disability Process

On Being the Spouse of a Spinal CSF Leak Patient

Michael Zetz, DDS
Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery (retired)
President, Spinal CSF Leak Foundation
Charleston, SC
Slide set: On Being the Spouse of a Spinal CSF Leak Patient

Sensible Physical Restrictions after Epidural Patching Procedures or Surgery

Laura Freed, MPT
Intracranial Hypotension Patient
Owner, Apex Physical Therapy, Parkersburg, WV
Slide set: Sensible Physical Restrictions after Epidural Patching Procedures or Surgery