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Intracranial Hypertension

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Intracranial hypertension (ICH) occurs when there is an increase in intracranial pressure (ICP) and is a common pathway for all acute neurological insults. ICH is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in such patients [1, 2], with a clear association between the severity of ICH and poor outcomes [3]. ICH may be caused by a primary disorder of the central nervous system or may be secondary to other systemic disorders.

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  1. Department of Critical Care Medicine, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepal

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  2. Department of Anaesthesiology, Nepal Medical College, Jorpati, Kathmandu, Nepal

    Saurabh Pradhan

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  1. Department of Neurology, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal

    Krishna Kumar Oli

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal

    Gentle Sunder Shrestha

  3. Department of Neurology, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal

    Rajeev Ojha

  4. Department of Neurology, NIMHANS, Bangalore, India

    Pramod Kumar Pal

  5. Department of Neurology and Stroke Medicine, Amrita Hospital, Faridabad, Delhi, India

    Sanjay Pandey

  6. Neuroanaesthesia, Neurocritical Care, Institute of Neurosciences, Kolkata, India

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Shrestha, G.S., Pradhan, S. (2024). Intracranial Hypertension. In: Oli, K.K., Shrestha, G.S., Ojha, R., Pal, P.K., Pandey, S., Das, B. (eds) Case-based Approach to Common Neurological Disorders. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8676-7_38

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