I'm a consultant neuroradiologist and I work across King’s Health Partners at both Guy's and St Thomas’ and King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trusts and I'm the lead for the spinal CSF leak service, or spontaneous intracranial hypotension, service. What is your role within King’s Health Partners Neurosciences? We spoke with Dr Lal Carlton Jones who leads the spinal CSF leak service at King’s Health Partners about the developments that have been happening in this area internationally, as well as being the first organised multidisciplinary team in the UK to offer a cure for patients with this condition. As a result, this condition isn’t widely known about, and often patients can be misdiagnosed or unable to access specialist curative treatment.
As the leak is small, they are very difficult to accurately diagnose and require a specific neuroradiological technique called myelography to pinpoint where treatment should be directed. Most headaches are temporary and can be cured, but for some people with a rare condition called spontaneous intracranial hypotension this can be a daily occurrence, caused by a small leak of fluid from the spine. The lead for the King’s Health Partners spinal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak service talks to us about how their team have implemented new diagnosis and treatment techniques for patients with a specific type of debilitating headache. Hear about the new treatment techniques which could help overcome this.
Imagine having a headache that couldn’t be cured.
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