Abstract
Intracranial mass lesions may cause intracranial hypertension secondary to venous hypertension when they compress the dural venous sinuses (DVS) and may present with isolated papilloedema, mimicking idiopathic intracranial hypertension. We report a series of 16 patients with isolated papilloedema related to meningiomas compressing the DVS seen from 2012 to 2016 at three institutions. Correct diagnosis was delayed in 10/16 patients and treatment required a multidisciplinary approach, often with multiple sequential interventions, including combinations of acetazolamide, cerebrospinal fluid-shunt, optic nerve sheath fenestration, surgical resection of the meningioma, radiation therapy, and endovascular venous stenting. Two patients also received anticoagulation for venous thrombosis secondary to venous sinus compression.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 171-179 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Neuro-Ophthalmology |
Volume | 43 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 4 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Valérie Biousse is a consultant for Gensight Biologics (France), received research support from the NIH/PHS (P30-EY006360), NIH (R01-NS089694) and Research to Prevent Blindness.
Funding Information:
Nancy J. Newman is a consultant for Gensight Biologics (France) and serves on the Data Safety Monitoring Board for Quark Pharmaceuticals (Israel) clinical trial, has provided expert testimony on the topic of optic disc oedema, and has received research support from NIH grants (R01-NS089694, P30-EY006360) and Research to Prevent Blindness Lew R. Wasserman Merit Award.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, © 2018 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
Keywords
- Papilloedema
- intracranial hypertension
- meningiomas