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Over the last decade, venous sinus stenting has become one of the most popular treatments for patients with severe IIH symptoms. It is a minimally invasive treatment where a stent is placed into a narrowed vein, usually at the transverse sinus, to restore normal venous outflow from the brain. This treatment is highly effective in lowering intracranial pressure in patients with IIH. However, many patients continue to have (or develop recurrence of) IIH symptoms after stenting. In this chapter we will discuss how doctors select patients for stenting, how the procedure is performed, and what to expect afterward. In addition, we discuss how doctors manage patients that aren’t feeling better after stenting and why this may happen. In this chapter, I have tried to convey everything I know about venous sinus stenting and relay that information to readers in a simplified, easy-to-understand manner.
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Fargen, K.M. (2021). Venous Sinus Stenting. In: Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension Explained. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80042-0_10
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