Dr. Mark Mamlouk at the 2021 Cedars-Sinai Intracranial Hypotension Symposium This video from the 2021 symposium features Dr. Mark Mamlouk, Director of TPMG Spinal CSF Leak Program at Kaiser Permanente in Santa Clara, CA, and Volunteer Assistant Clinical Professor of...
Dr. Peter Kranz at the 2021 Cedars-Sinai Intracranial Hypotension Symposium This video from the 2021 symposium features Dr. Peter Kranz, Associate Professor and Chief of Neuroradiology at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. Dr. Kranz presented...
Each month we send out an email newsletter to our subscribers. Below is our September 2021 newsletter. Click here to see past newsletters and subscribe! The 4th Annual Cedars-Sinai Intracranial Hypotension Symposium is just one month away! The Fourth Annual...
This week we revisited three of our patient storytellers sharing their experiences with spinal CSF leak due to CSF-venous fistula. Kathy’s only symptom was pain when she coughed. Patty had several ear surgeries before it became clear that her leak was spinal,...
For many people experiencing spinal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak, the most prominent symptom is a headache that worsens when upright and improves when lying down. But some patients never experience this kind of orthostatic headache symptom. Kathy Webster was one of...
Alice’s headache started after a sinus infection—but wouldn’t end until she had surgery to address the CSF-venous fistula causing her spinal CSF leak symptoms. Alice is one of those people for whom the term “go-getter” was invented. At 58, she walked eight miles a...