Relief of postural post dural puncture headache by an epidural blood patch 12 months after dural puncture

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica - Tập 43 Số 9 - Trang 964-966 - 1999
Pål Klepstad1
1Department of Anaesthesia, Regional and University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway.

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A 20‐year‐old previously healthy male presented at the pain clinic with chronic headache of about one year duration. Clinical examination revealed no pathological manifestations. During the consultation the patient was drinking Coca‐Cola. On direct questioning he told that drinking Coca‐Cola gave partial relief from the headache, and that the headache started after he had received two spinal anaesthetics for treatment of a lower leg fracture. Postural post dural puncture headache was now suspected and an epidural blood patch performed. Despite an interval of nearly 12 months since the dural punctures, a single epidural blood patch completely relieved the headache. This case history demonstrates that an epidural blood patch should be tried if a chronic post dural puncture headache is suspected.

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