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KMID : 0374019790020030155
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Ewha Medical Journal
1979 Volume.2 No. 3 p.155 ~ p.159
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A Clinical Study of Postlumbar-Puncture Headaches
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Abstract
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The onset and persistence of headache following spinal puncture is a continual problem to physicians who perform this procedure. There is considerable evidence that headaches following spinal puncutre result form low cerebrospinal fluid pressure caused by leadkage through the puncture in the dural sac.
The author has studied the value and consequences of prophylactic autologous epidual blood patch in postlumbar-puncutre headaches.
Fifty patients undergoing myelography received prophylactic autologous epidual bood patches to prevent postlumbar-puncutre headache; the results indicate a significant reduction in the incidence and severity of this problem compared to a control group, without any significant side effects.
Based on the results of this study, author believes that epidural blood patch is a safe and effective procedure of prophylaxis and treatment for postlumbar-puncture headache.
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