PMID- 22091245
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20111123
LR  - 20211021
IS  - 1735-7136 (Electronic)
IS  - 1735-1995 (Print)
IS  - 1735-1995 (Linking)
VI  - 16
IP  - 3
DP  - 2011 Mar
TI  - Evaluation of pre lumbar puncture position on post lumbar puncture headache.
PG  - 282-6
AB  - BACKGROUND: The most common complication of lumbar puncture (LP) occurring in 
      over thirty percent of patients is headache. The position after lumbar puncture, 
      needle type and size, and volume of the extracted cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) have 
      been evaluated as contributory factors in occurrence of post lumbar puncture 
      headache (PLPH), but the position before lumbar puncture has not been evaluated. 
      METHODS: The occurrence of post lumbar puncture headache was evaluated in 125 
      patients undergoing lumbar puncture, divided randomly into sitting and lateral 
      decubitus groups in the following five days. Chi-square test was used for 
      statistical analysis. RESULTS: Thirty eight patients (30.4%) reported headache 
      after lumbar puncture in the two groups, and post lumbar puncture headache was 
      significantly lower in the lateral decubitus position (p = 0.001). There was no 
      significant difference between genders in the post lumbar puncture headache 
      occurrence (p = 0.767). CONCLUSIONS: Lumbar puncture in sitting position could 
      produce more post lumbar puncture headache in comparison with lateral decubitus 
      position.
FAU - Majd, Siamak Afshin
AU  - Majd SA
AD  - Department of Neurology, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran.
FAU - Pourfarzam, Shahryar
AU  - Pourfarzam S
FAU - Ghasemi, Hassan
AU  - Ghasemi H
FAU - Yarmohammadi, Mohammad Ebrahim
AU  - Yarmohammadi ME
FAU - Davati, Ali
AU  - Davati A
FAU - Jaberian, Moslem
AU  - Jaberian M
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - India
TA  - J Res Med Sci
JT  - Journal of research in medical sciences : the official journal of Isfahan 
      University of Medical Sciences
JID - 101235599
PMC - PMC3214334
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Post-Dural Puncture Headache
OT  - Postoperative Complications
OT  - Spinal Puncture
COIS- Conflict of Interests Authors have no conflict of interests.
EDAT- 2011/11/18 06:00
MHDA- 2011/11/18 06:01
PMCR- 2011/03/01
CRDT- 2011/11/18 06:00
PHST- 2010/07/12 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2010/09/06 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2011/11/18 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2011/11/18 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2011/11/18 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2011/03/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - JRMS-16-282 [pii]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Res Med Sci. 2011 Mar;16(3):282-6.