PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Borg, Nicholas
AU  - Oushy, Soliman
AU  - Savastano, Luis
AU  - Brinjikji, Waleed
TI  - Transvenous embolization of a cerebrospinal fluid–venous fistula for the treatment of spontaneous intracranial hypotension
AID  - 10.1136/neurintsurg-2021-018160
DP  - 2021 Oct 14
TA  - Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery
PG  - neurintsurg-2021-018160
4099  - http://jnis.bmj.com/content/early/2021/10/14/neurintsurg-2021-018160.short
4100  - http://jnis.bmj.com/content/early/2021/10/14/neurintsurg-2021-018160.full
AB  - Cerebrospinal fluid–venous fistula is an increasingly recognized cause of spontaneous intracranial hypotension.1 The site of the leak is between the dural sleeve around a spinal nerve root and the surrounding foraminal veins. In appropriately investigated patients, transvenous embolization of the draining foraminal and paraspinal veins has been shown to be an effective way of treating the disease, with low periprocedural morbidity, improvement in symptoms and radiological appearances.2 Video 1 shows the technique employed in a typical case using Onyx (Medtronic, Minnesota, USA) to embolize a CSF–venous fistula at the right T10 neural foramen.Video 1