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Question Title: bloodpatch

Forum: Neurology Forum
Topic: Arachnoiditis


Hello,

I have a questin about bloodpatches. Please can you give me some information about this subject or could you give me some titles of books about this subject? I need it for my study!

Thanks already!!

Judith


Thanks for your question. Here are some clinical papers on the subject of
Epidural Blood Patches:

Caudal epidural blood patch for the treatment of postdural puncture headache.
Anesth Analg 1998 Aug;87(2):394-5
Gerancher JC; D'Angelo R; Carpenter R
Department of Anesthesia, Stanford Health Services, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305, USA. gerancher@stanford.edu.

Magnetic resonance imaging of cerebrospinal fluid leak and tamponade effect of blood patch in postdural puncture headache.
Anesth Analg 1997 Mar;84(3):585-90
Vakharia SB; Thomas PS; Rosenbaum AE; Wasenko JJ; Fellows DG
Department of Anesthesiology, SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse 13210, USA.

Epidural blood patch for atypical headache following obstetric epidural analgesia.
Anaesthesia 1997 Jan;52(1):62-4
Yentis SM; Haire K
Magill Department of Anaesthetics, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, UK.
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