2004, Number 4
Rev Med Hosp Gen Mex 2004; 67 (4)
Postdural puncture headache treatment: Past, present and future. Part 1
López-Herranz GP
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ABSTRACT
Headache is a frequent complication, that appears after a lumbar puncture. Dural puncture can be done for diagnostic, therapeutic method, or during attempted subarachnoid or spinal anesthetic procedures, or accidentally, when placing epidural anesthesia. August Bier, in 1898, described for the first time post-dural puncture headache (PDPH). From then, the study of the PDPH began. In the first part of this review, the contributions of the past in relation to PDPH, factors that condition it, clinical characteristics, physiopathology, and the diversity of proposals of treatments to resolve this complication are described