Pseudotumour cerebri associated with mycoplasma pneumoniae infection and treatment with levofloxacin: a case report.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), also known as pseudotumour cerebri syndrome (PTCS), is characterized by the presence of signs and symptoms of raised intracranial pressure without evidence of any intracranial structural cause and with normal cerebrospinal fluid microscopy and biochemistry. Obesity, various systemic diseases and endocrine conditions, and a number of medications are known to be risk factors for PTCS. The medications commonly associated with PTCS are amiodarone, antibiotics, corticosteroids, cyclosporine, growth hormone, oral contraceptives, vitamin A analogues, lithium, phenytoin, NSAIDs, leuprolide acetate, and some neuroleptic drugs. In relation to antibiotics, quinolones may cause intracranial hypertension, and most reported cases of quinolon

SUBMITTER: Maffeis L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6320575 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature