Abstracts & Articles

2024

• Carroll I, Schievink W. Progressive superficial siderosis despite complete remission of intracranial hypotension symptoms following epidural patching: Case report. Headache. 2024 Apr 13. doi: 10.1111/head.14697. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38613228.

• Wouter I. Schievink, Marcel M. Maya, Angelique Sao-Mai S. Tay, Peyton L. Nisson, Jay Acharya, Rachelle B. Taché and Miriam Nuño. Optic Nerve Sheath MR Imaging Measurements in Patients with Orthostatic Headaches and Normal Findings on Conventional Imaging Predict the Presence of an Underlying CSF-Venous Fistula. American Journal of Neuroradiology March 2024, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A8165

• Parikh, S.K. Rebound Intracranial Hypertension. Curr Pain Headache Rep (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11916-024-01231-9

• Ian Carroll MD, MS, Andrew L. Callen MD.Beyond myths: Transformative insights into spinal cerebrospinal fluid leaks and their role in persistent headache syndromes. Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain, 22 February 2024. https://doi.org/10.1111/head.14677

• Jesse CM, Schär RT, Goldberg J, Fung C, Ulrich CT, Dobrocky T, Piechowiak EI, Schankin CJ, Beck J, Raabe A, Häni L. Patient-reported symptomatology and its course in spontaneous intracranial hypotension - Beware of a chameleon. Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 2024 Jan;236:108087. doi: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2023.108087. Epub 2023 Dec 19. PMID: 38134757.

2023

• Volz, Florian MD; Doria-Medina, Roberto MD; Fung, Christian MD; Wolf, Katharina MD; El Rahal, Amir MD; Lützen, Niklas MD; Urbach, Horst MD; Loidl, Theresa Bettina MD; Hubbe, Ulrich MD; Klingler, Jan-Helge MD; Beck, Jürgen MD. Keyhole Fenestration for Cerebrospinal Fluid Leaks in the Thoracic Spine: Quantification of Bone Removal and Microsurgical Anatomy. Operative Neurosurgery ():10.1227/ons.0000000000001042, December 22, 2023. | DOI: 10.1227/ons.0000000000001042
  

• NathanielR. Ellens, Derrek Schartz , Rahim Ismail, Alex Kessler, Shehenaz Ellika, Sajal Medha K. Akkipeddi, Redi Rahmani, and Matthew T. Bender. Efficacy of transvenous embolization of CSF-venous fistula in spontaneous intracranial hypotension: Case-series. Interventional Neuroradioogy.First published Dec 21, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1177/15910199231221
  

• Jesse CM, Schär RT, Goldberg J, Fung C, Ulrich CT, Dobrocky T, Piechowiak EI, Schankin CJ, Beck J, Raabe A, Häni L. Patient-reported symptomatology and its course in spontaneous intracranial hypotension - Beware of a chameleon. Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 2023 Dec 19;236:108087. doi: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2023.108087. Epub ahead of print.
  

• Roaa Zayat, Thien J Huynh, Olga Fermo. Incidental asymptomatic spinal cerebrospinal fluid leaks: single-center experience, and a presentation of seven cases. Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery  Published Online First: 19 December 2023. doi:10.1136/jnis-2023-021053

• Schievink, W.I. (2023), Superficial siderosis and the dura. Eur J Neurol e16182. https://doi.org/10.1111/ene.16182

• Andrew L. Callen, Mo Fakhri, Vincent M. Timpone, Ashesh A. Thaker, William P. Dillon, Vinil N. Shah. Temporal Characteristics of CSF Venous Fistulas on Dynamic Decubitus CT Myelography: A Retrospective Multi-Institution Cohort Study. American Journal of Neuroradiology Dec 2023, DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A8078

  
  

• Madhavan AA, Cutsforth-Gregory JK, Brinjikji W, Bathla G, Benson JC, Diehn FE, Eckel LJ, Mark IT, Morris PP, Payne MA, Verdoorn JT, Weber NM, Yu L, Baffour F, Fletcher JG, McCollough CH. Diagnostic Performance of Decubitus Photon-Counting Detector CT Myelography for the Detection of CSF-Venous Fistulas. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2023 Dec 11;44(12):1445-1450. doi: 10.3174/ajnr.A8040.
  

• Liaw V, McCreary M, Friedman DI. Quality of Life in Patients With Confirmed and Suspected Spinal CSF Leaks. Neurology. 2023 Dec 4;101(23):e2411-e2422. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000207763. PMID: 37816637.

• John C. Benson, Ajay A. Madhavan, Ian T. Mark, Jeremy K. Cutsforth-Gregory, Waleed Brinjikji and Jared T. Verdoorn. Likelihood of Discovering a CSF Leak Based on Intracranial MRI Findings in Patients without a Spinal Longitudinal Extradural Collection: A New Probabilistic Scoring System. American Journal of Neuroradiology November 2023,  44 (11) 1339-1344; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A8030 

  
  

• Lützen N, Demerath T, Würtemberger U, Belachew NF, Barvulsky Aleman E, Wolf K, El Rahal A, Volz F, Fung C, Beck J, Urbach H. Direct comparison of digital subtraction myelography versus CT myelography in lateral decubitus position: evaluation of diagnostic yield for cerebrospinal fluid-venous fistulas. J Neurointerv Surg. 2023 Nov 2:jnis-2023-020789. doi: 10.1136/jnis-2023-020789.

• Callen AL, Jones LC, Timpone VM, Pattee J, Scoffings DJ, Butteriss D, Huynh T, Shen PY, Mamlouk MD. Factors Predictive of Treatment Success in CT-Guided Fibrin Occlusion of CSF-Venous Fistulas: A Multicenter Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2023 Nov;44(11):1332-1338. doi: 10.3174/ajnr.A8005. Epub 2023 Oct 5. PMID: 37798111; PMCID: PMC10631531.

• El Rahal A, Haupt B, Fung C, Cipriani D, Häni L, Lützen N, Dobrocky T, Piechowiak E, Schnell O, Raabe A, Wolf K, Urbach H, Kraus LM, Volz F, Beck J. Surgical closure of spinal cerebrospinal fluid leaks improves symptoms in patients with superficial siderosis. Eur J Neurol. 2023 Nov 28. doi: 10.1111/ene.16122.

• Häni L, Fung C, El Rahal A, Volz F, Kraus LM, Schnell O, Ferrarese R, Erny D, Schwabenland M, Urbach H, Lützen N, Beck J. Distinct Pattern of Membrane Formation With Spinal Cerebrospinal Fluid Leaks in Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension. Oper Neurosurg (Hagerstown). 2024 Jan 1;26(1):71-77. doi: 10.1227/ons.0000000000000914. Epub 2023 Sep 25. PMID: 37747369; PMCID: PMC10688773.

• Kranz PG, Malinzak MD, Gray L, Willhite J, Amrhein TJ. Resisted Inspiration Improves Visualization of CSF-Venous Fistulas in Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2023 Aug;44(8):994-998. doi: 10.3174/ajnr.

• Volz F, Fung C, Wolf K, Lützen N, Urbach H, Kraus LM, Omer M, Beck J, El Rahal A. Recovery and long-term outcome after neurosurgical closure of spinal CSF leaks in patients with spontaneous intracranial hypotension. Cephalalgia. 2023 Aug;43(8):3331024231196808. doi: 10.1177/03331024231195830. PMID: 37652456.

• Callen AL, Pattee J, Thaker AA, Timpone VM, Zander DA, Turner R, Birlea M, Wilhour D, O'Brien C, Evan J, Grassia F, Carroll IR. Relationship of Bern Score, Spinal Elastance, and Opening Pressure in Patients With Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension. Neurology. 2023 May 30;100(22):e2237-e2246. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000207267.

•  Farb RI, O'Reilly ST, Hendriks EJ, Peng PW, Massicotte EM, Hoydonckx Y, Nicholson PJ. Spontaneous intracranial hypotension due to CSF-venous fistula: Evaluation of renal accumulation of contrast following decubitus myelography and maintained decubitus CT to improve fistula localization. Interv Neuroradiol. 2023 May 21:15910199231172627. doi: 10.1177/15910199231172627.

• Cheema S, Anderson J, Angus-Leppan H, Armstrong P, Butteriss D, Carlton Jones L, Choi D, Chotai A, D'Antona L, Davagnanam I, Davies B, Dorman PJ, Duncan C, Ellis S, Iodice V, Joy C, Lagrata S, Mead S, Morland D, Nissen J, Pople J, Redfern N, Sayal PP, Scoffings D, Secker R, Toma AK, Trevarthen T, Walkden J, Beck J, Kranz PG, Schievink W, Wang SJ, Matharu MS. Multidisciplinary consensus guideline for the diagnosis and management of spontaneous intracranial hypotension. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2023 Oct;94(10):835-843. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2023-331166.

• Andrew L. Callen. Finding the Leak: Tips for CSF Leak and Venous Fistula Localization. Published March 8, 2023. ARRS. In practice.

• Lützen N, Fung C, Beck J, Urbach H. Multiple Bilateral CSF-venous Fistulas in Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension : A Therapeutic Challenge. Clin Neuroradiol. 2023 Mar;33(1):251-254. doi: 10.1007/s00062-022-01234-2.

2022

• Schievink WI, Maya M, Barnard Z, Taché RB, Prasad RS, Wadhwa VS, Moser FG, Nuño M. The reversible impairment of behavioral variant frontotemporal brain sagging syndrome: Challenges and opportunities. Alzheimers Dement (N Y). 2022 Dec 18;8(1):e12367. doi: 10.1002/trc2.12367. PMID: 36544987

• Callen AL, Jones LC, Timpone VM, Pattee J, Scoffings DJ, Butteriss D, Huynh T, Shen PY, Mamlouk MD. Factors Predictive of Treatment Success in CT-Guided Fibrin Occlusion of CSF-Venous Fistulas: A Multicenter Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2023 Nov;44(11):1332-1338. doi: 10.3174/ajnr.A8005. Epub 2023 Oct 5. PMID: 37798111; PMCID: PMC10631531.

• Callen AL, Timpone VM, Schwertner A, Zander D, Grassia F, Lennarson P, Seinfeld J, Lillehei KO, Birlea M, Thaker AA. Algorithmic Multimodality Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment of Spinal CSF Leak and Venous Fistula in Patients With Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2022 Aug;219(2):292-301. doi: 10.2214/AJR.22.27485.  Houk JL, Marin DM, Malinzak MD, Kranz PG, Amrhein TJ. Dual energy CT for the identification of CSF-Venous Fistulas and CSF leaks in spontaneous intracranial hypotension: Report of four cases. Radiol Case Rep. 2022 Mar 29;17(5):1824-1829. doi: 10.1016/j.radcr.2022.02.053.

•  Mark IT, Amans MR, Shah VN, et al. Resisted inspiration: a new technique to aid in the detection of CSF-venous fistulas. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2022;43:1544–47 doi:10.3174/ajnr.A7636 pmid:36137659

• Borg N, Cutsforth-Gregory J, Oushy S, et al. Anatomy of spinal venous drainage for the neurointerventionalist: from puncture site to intervertebral foramen. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2022;43:517–25 doi:10.3174/ajnr.A7409 pmid:35086801

•  Madhavan AA, Benson JC, Cutsforth-Gregory JK, et al. Co-existing fast CSF leaks and CSF-venous fistulas on dynamic CT myelography. Radiol Case Rep 2022;17:2968–71 doi:10.1016/j.radcr.2022.05.053 pmid:35755098

•  Konovalov A, Gadzhiagaev V, Vinogradov E, Nikitin N, Eliava S, Konovalov N. Surgical Treatment Efficacy of CSF-Venous Fistulas: Systematic Review. World Neurosurg. 2022 May;161:91-96. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2022.02.036.

• Dobrocky T, Nicholson P, Häni L, Mordasini P, Krings T, Brinjikji W, Cutsforth-Gregory JK, Schär R, Schankin C, Gralla J, Pereira VM, Raabe A, Farb R, Beck J, Piechowiak EI. Spontaneous intracranial hypotension: searching for the CSF leak. Lancet Neurol. 2022 Apr;21(4):369-380. doi: 10.1016/S1474-4422(21)00423-3.

•  Carlton Jones L, Goadsby PJ. Same-Day Bilateral Decubitus CT Myelography for Detecting CSF-Venous Fistulas in Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2022 Apr;43(4):645-648. doi: 10.3174/ajnr.A7476. Epub 2022 Mar 24.

• Häni L, Fung C, Jesse CM, Ulrich CT, Piechowiak EI, Gralla J, Raabe A, Dobrocky T, Beck J. Outcome after surgical treatment of cerebrospinal fluid leaks in spontaneous intracranial hypotension-a matter of time. J Neurol. 2022 Mar;269(3):1439-1446. doi: 10.1007/s00415-021-10710-7.

• Jesse CM, Häni L, Fung C, Ulrich CT, Schär RT, Dobrocky T, Piechowiak EI, Goldberg J, Schankin C, Sintonen H, Beck J, Raabe A. The impact of spontaneous intracranial hypotension on social life and health-related quality of life. J Neurol. 2022 Oct;269(10):5466-5473. doi: 10.1007/s00415-022-11207-7. Epub 2022 Jun 14. PMID: 35701531; PMCID: PMC9467959.

2021

•   Carlton Jones L, Butteriss D, Scoffings D. Spontaneous intracranial hypotension: the role of radiology in diagnosis and management. Clin Radiol. 2022 Mar;77(3):e181-e194. doi: 10.1016/j.crad.2021.11.007. Epub 2021 Dec 20. PMID: 34949452.

• Mamlouk MD, Shen PY, Sedrak MF, Dillon WP. CT-guided Fibrin Glue Occlusion of Cerebrospinal Fluid-Venous Fistulas. Radiology. 2021 May;299(2):409-418. doi: 10.1148/radiol.2021204231. Epub 2021 Mar 2. PMID: 33650903.

• Kranz PG, Gray L, Malinzak MD, et al. CSF-venous fistulas: anatomy and diagnostic imaging. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2021;217:1418–29 doi:10.2214/AJR.21.26182 pmid:34191547

•  Schievink WI, Maya M, Prasad RS, et al. Spinal CSF-venous fistulas in morbidly and super obese patients with spontaneous intracranial hypotension. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2021;42:397 401 doi:10.3174/ajnr.A6895 pmid:33334852

•  Brinjikji W, Savastano LE, Atkinson JLD, et al. A novel endovascular therapy for CSF hypotension secondary to CSF-venous fistulas. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2021;42:882–87 doi:10.3174/ajnr.A7014 pmid:33541895

•  Mamlouk MD, Shen PY, Sedrak MF, et al. CT-guided fibrin glue occlusion of cerebrospinal fluid-venous fistulas. Radiology 2021;299:409–18 doi:10.1148/radiol.2021204231 pmid:33650903

•  Mamlouk MD, Ochi RP, Jun P, et al. Decubitus CT myelography for CSF-venous fistulas: a procedural approach. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2021;42:32–36 doi:10.3174/ajnr.A6844 pmid:33122215

 2020

•  Wang TY, Karikari IO, Amrhein TJ, et al. Clinical outcomes following surgical ligation of cerebrospinal fluid-venous fistula in patients with spontaneous intracranial hypotension: a prospective case series. Oper Neurosurg (Hagerstown) 2020;18:239–45 doi:10.1093/ons/opz134 pmid:31134267

•  Amrhein TJ, Gray L, Malinzak MD, et al. Respiratory phase affects the conspicuity of CSF-venous fistulas in spontaneous intracranial hypotension. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2020;41:1754–56 doi:10.3174/ajnr.A6663 pmid:32675336

• Urbach H, Fung C, Dovi-Akue P, Lützen N, Beck J. Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension. Dtsch Arztebl Int. 2020 Jul 6;117(27-28):480-487. doi: 10.3238/arztebl.2020.0480. PMID: 33050997; PMCID: PMC7575894.

 2019

• Farb RI, Nicholson PJ, Peng PW, Massicotte EM, Lay C, Krings T, terBrugge KG. Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension: A Systematic Imaging Approach for CSF Leak Localization and Management Based on MRI and Digital Subtraction Myelography. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2019 Apr;40(4):745-753. doi: 10.3174/ajnr.A6016.

• Kranz PG, Gray L, Amrhein TJ. Decubitus CT myelography for detecting subtle CSF leaks in spontaneous intracranial hypotension. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2019;40:754–56 doi:10.3174/ajnr.A5995 

•  Schievink WI, Maya MM, Moser FG, et al. Lateral decubitus digital subtraction myelography to identify spinal CSF-venous fistulas in spontaneous intracranial hypotension. J Neurosurg Spine 2019 Sept 13 [Epub ahead of print] doi:10.3171/2019.6.SPINE19487 

2018

Kranz PG, Gray L, Amrhein TJ. Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension: 10 Myths and Misperceptions. Headache. 2018 Jul;58(7):948-959. doi: 10.1111/head.13328. Epub 2018 May 24. PMID: 29797515.

 2017

• Sakurai K, Kanoto M, Nakagawa M, et al. Dinosaur tail sign: a useful spinal MRI finding indicative of cerebrospinal fluid leakage. Headache. 2017; 57(6): 917-925. doi:10.1111/head.13075