Elanwar, R., Gamal, D., Hosny, H., Mabrouk, M. (2023). Studying Effect of Therapeutic CSF Tapping on Outcome of Patients with Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension through Blink Reflex. The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine, 90(2), 3159-3161. doi: 10.21608/ejhm.2023.290614
Rehab Elanwar; Dalia Gamal; Hanan Hosny; Mohamed Mabrouk. "Studying Effect of Therapeutic CSF Tapping on Outcome of Patients with Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension through Blink Reflex". The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine, 90, 2, 2023, 3159-3161. doi: 10.21608/ejhm.2023.290614
Elanwar, R., Gamal, D., Hosny, H., Mabrouk, M. (2023). 'Studying Effect of Therapeutic CSF Tapping on Outcome of Patients with Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension through Blink Reflex', The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine, 90(2), pp. 3159-3161. doi: 10.21608/ejhm.2023.290614
Elanwar, R., Gamal, D., Hosny, H., Mabrouk, M. Studying Effect of Therapeutic CSF Tapping on Outcome of Patients with Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension through Blink Reflex. The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2023; 90(2): 3159-3161. doi: 10.21608/ejhm.2023.290614
Studying Effect of Therapeutic CSF Tapping on Outcome of Patients with Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension through Blink Reflex
Background: About 39-59% of individuals with idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) have cranial nerve impairments of some kind, including single or multiple cranial nerve (CN) palsies. Objective: The aim of the current study was to assess clinical outcome after cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tapping through blink reflex (BR). Patients and methods: A comparative study was carried out on 40 female patients with IIH, aged between 18 and 60 years, and 40 age and sex matched normal volunteers as a control group, between 2019 and 2021. Participants were subjected to blink reflex before and after therapeutic CSF tapping at Neuro-Diagnostic & Research Center (NDRC), Beni-Suef University Hospital. Results: Patients with IIH after CSF tapping showed significant decrease of latencies of BR {the ipsilateral R2 (R2i) from 31.6 (2.8) to 30.6 (2.1) ms (P=0.019) and contralateral R2 (R2c) from 35.2 (3.3) to 33.8 (2.5) ms (P=0.023). After CSF tapping, when compared patients to controls, the latencies of R2i 30.6 (2.1) to 29 (2.6) ms (P=0.005) and R2c 33.8 (2.5) to 32.2 (2.8) ms (P=0.007).