Orthostatic headache [Neurosurgery Wiki]

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====== Orthostatic headache ======

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[[Headache]] that occurs or worsens with [[upright posture]]. Improved in recumbency.

Previously it was often misdiagnosed as different primary headache disorders such as [[migraine]] or [[tension headache]]s. Increasing awareness of the symptom and its causes has prevented delayed or missed diagnosis.
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German neurologist Schaltenbrand reported that orthostatic headache by low cerebrospinal fluid pressure in [[1938]]. This disease came to be known after development of radiological diagnosis in [[1990]]. 

Shinonaga et al reported that cerebrospinal fluid leak is induced in the whiplash sequelae after traffic accident in [[2003]]
((Shinonaga M. [The present state and view of the cerebrospinal fluid
hypovolemia research]. Nihon Rinsho. 2013 Oct;71(10):1871-8. Review. Japanese.
PubMed PMID: 24261222.))

===== Etiology =====

see [[Spontaneous intracranial hypotension]].