#RADICULOPATHY AFTER BLOOD PATCH PATCH#
If conservative treatments are not successful, the epidural blood patch is the gold standard of the treatment for dural puncture. Postdural puncture headache is a leak of cerebrospinal fluid that lowers intracranial pressure and usually presents as a positional headache.
Key words: blood patch, epidural, spinal headache, transforaminal In cases, with inability to perform interlaminar blood patch, a transforaminal approach may be considered. The patient recovered well without headache. Transforaminal epidural blood patch was performed utilizing 2 mL of autologous blood atĮach of the two sites. Interlaminar epidural approach for blood patch was not feasible secondary to prior laminectomy. Three days later, the patient presented with a severe post lumbar puncture headache and failed to respond to conservative management. Management of chronic low back pain secondary to post laminectomy syndrome. The patient underwent left transforaminal epidural injections at L5 and S1 for Transforaminal epidural blood patch after the failure of conservative management. Selective epidural injection in a post laminectomy patient that was treated with a This case report describes a patient with spinal headache after a transforaminal abdominal binder, fluids, acetaminophen), an epidural blood patch In the event of failure of conservative management, (e.g. Procedures due to dural puncture that allows leakage of CSF from the thecal sac,
Spinal headache is an occasional, but painful complication of epidural injection
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