Medically reviewed by Angela Ryan Lee, MD If you are having an unexplained low-pressure headache, it's possible that you may ...

Various supplemental tests, including the CSF tap test, external CSF drainage via spinal catheter, and CSF outflow resistance determination, can improve the accuracy of predicting a response to ...

In a study published today (July 24) in Nature, researchers show that there is a hot spot of meningeal lymphatic vessels at the base of the rodent skull that is specialized to drain CSF and allow ...

was allowing Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) to drain into her nasal and buccal cavities. The condition is a rare one known as a Cerebrospinal Fluid leak, commonly called CSF leak [2]. Kendra must have ...

The following sections generally outline therapies with the fewest side effects first (mechanical and CSF drainage) with increasing side effects toward the end of this section (barbiturates and ...

A flow-limiting valve operates by limiting CSF drainage under normal pressure conditions, but will switch to allow a higher flow rate in response to increased ICP. However, despite all of the ...