Idiopathic intracranial hypertension
The veno glymphatic connections
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Abstract
The recent discoveries of the glymphatic and lymphatic systems of the brain have helped advance our understanding of CSF physiology and may allow new insights in the understanding of idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH). The clinical and radiologic presentations of IIH appear to be related to congestion of the glymphatic system associated with an overflow of the lymphatic CSF outflow pathway. By revisiting the role of “vascular arachnoid granulations” in the brain, we hypothesize that an initial impairment of the transport of interstitial fluid from the glymphatic system to the venous blood of the dural sinuses may trigger the hydrodynamic cascade of IIH. Furthermore, we speculate that, similar to other water-exchange systems in the brain, a specific subtype of aquaporin is involved in this transport. This theory may eventually help to provide an underlying explanation for IIH and its associated conditions, since in most of them, the expression of several aquaporins is altered.
Glossary
- AG=
- arachnoid granulation;
- AQP=
- aquaporin;
- CVP=
- cerebral venous pressure;
- ICP=
- intracranial pressure;
- IIH=
- idiopathic intracranial hypertension;
- ISF=
- interstitial fluid;
- TS=
- transverse sinus
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- Received January 26, 2018.
- Accepted in final form June 7, 2018.
- © 2018 American Academy of Neurology
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- Author response to Kronenberg et al.
- Stephanie Lenck, Interventional Neuroradiologist, Department of Neuroradiolgy, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Université Paris Sorbonne (Paris, France)
- Patrick Nicholson, Interventional Neuroradiologist, Department of Medical Imaging, Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada)
Submitted October 30, 2018 - Author response to De Simone et al.
- Stephanie Lenck, Interventional Neuroradiologist, Department of Neuroradiolgy, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Université Paris Sorbonne (Paris, France)
- Patrick Nicholson, Interventional Neuroradiologist, Department of Medical Imaging, Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada)
Submitted October 14, 2018 - Reader response: Idiopathic intracranial hypertension: The veno glymphatic connections
- Golo Kronenberg, Psychiatrist, College of Life Sciences - University of Leicester / Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (Leicester, England)
- Hagen Kunte, Neurologist and Psychiatrist, MSB-Medical School Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
Submitted October 07, 2018 - Reader response: Idiopathic intracranial hypertension: The veno glymphatic connections
- Roberto De Simone, Neurologist, Headache Centre, Reproductive Sciences and Odontostomatology, University of Naples Federico II (Naples, Italy)
- Angelo Ranieri, Neurologist, Division of Neurology and Stroke Unit, Hospital Antonio Cardarelli (Naples, Italy)
Submitted October 01, 2018
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