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Cerebral venous sinus stenting (VSS) has been shown to be an effective new form of therapy in some cases of benign intracranial hypertension (BIH), also known as idiopathic intracranial hypertension or pseudotumor cerebri. Cerebral venography with venous pressure measurement (direct retrograde cerebral venography and manometry – DRCVM) is a diagnostic tool used in pre-stenting evaluation of patients with BIH who are unresponsive or intolerant to conventional therapies. DRCVM procedures aim to identify the subset of the BIH patients who have a venous sinus stenosis, elevated venous pressure above the stenosis, and a venous pressure gradient across the stenosis, who might benefit from stenting of the venous sinus to relieve the stenosis.
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Parker, G.D. (2014). Cerebral Venography/Venous Pressure Monitoring/Venous Stenting. In: Murphy, K., Robertson, F. (eds) Interventional Neuroradiology. Techniques in Interventional Radiology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4582-0_16
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