Khater, Beatrice and Kassouf, Vicky and Haddad, Georges and Hourani, Roula (2020) Bilateral Subdural Haematoma and CPAP Use: A Possible Association. European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 7 (8). pp. 1-3. ISSN ISSN: 2284-2594
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Abstract
Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is a common condition usually treated with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). No reports have linked it to an acute subdural haematoma. A 54-year-old white man who had hypertension well controlled with an angiotensin II receptor blocker, presented with a 2-week history of occipital headache with no other focal neurological symptoms. The headache began 12 days after he had started using CPAP for OSA. A brain MRI performed 2 weeks later showed bilateral subdural haematomas which were chronic on the left and sub-acute/acute on the right. Since the patient was clinically stable with no focal neurological deficits, he received prednisone for 3 weeks and was followed up with consecutive CT scans demonstrating gradual regression of the haematomas. This is the first report showing that subdural haematomas could be linked to CPAP use.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Headache, subdural haematoma, obstructive sleep apnoea, CPAP |
| Subjects: | 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) > 616 Malattie (classificare qui la Clinica medica, la medicina basata sull'evidenza, la Medicina interna, la Medicina sperimentale) |
| Depositing User: | Marina Spanti |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Dec 2021 14:56 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Dec 2021 14:56 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/20969 |
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