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SUBMITTER: Mollan SP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5013119 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mollan Susan P SP Ali Fizzah F Hassan-Smith Ghaniah G Botfield Hannah H Friedman Deborah I DI Sinclair Alexandra J AJ
Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 20160217 9
Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) is a rare but important disease associated with significant morbidity. There is an expected rise in prevalence in line with the escalating global burden of obesity. Modern revisions in the terminology and diagnostic criteria for IIH help guide clinicians in investigations and researchers in standardising recruitment criteria for clinical trials. The pathophysiology of IIH is incompletely characterised; suggested underpinning mechanisms include the role ...[more]