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blood patch. See epidural blood patch. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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This report details an immediate improvement in subjective and objective hearing after the administration of an epidural blood patch to a patient with a hearing loss that had developed following a lumbar puncture. Severe PDPH was defined as a headache that resulted in the patients being unable to perform his or her daily activities or being confined to bed and requiring oral or IV analgesic and/or epidural blood patch for treatment. In a study of patients undergoing magnetic resonance imaging after epidural blood patch procedure to manage postdural puncture headache, Vakharia et a112 demonstrated that a 20-ml epidural blood patch would produce a hematoma in the posterior epidural space. |
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