We systematically evaluated the evidence for urgent venous sinus stenting (VSS) as a sight-saving strategy in fulminant idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), a rapidly progressive phenotype with imminent risk of irreversible visual loss....
No actionable change — this neurology systematic review concerns vision-threatening intracranial hypertension and has no relevance to audiology practice.
This article has no relevance to the audiology field and appears to have been ingested in error; idiopathic intracranial hypertension can occasionally cause pulsatile tinnitus, but that connection is not addressed here.
- 01Systematic review evaluates urgent venous sinus stenting for fulminant idiopathic intracranial hypertension (dangerously high brain pressure).
- 02Primary focus is preventing vision loss, not hearing or auditory outcomes.
- 03Published in Frontiers in Neurology — not an audiology journal.
- 04No audiological outcomes, hearing loss data, or tinnitus measures are reported.
Urgent venous sinus stenting is an effective sight-saving intervention for fulminant idiopathic intracranial hypertension.
studypartially supported- PMID
- 42147834
- DOI
- 10.3389/fneur.2026.1824887.
- Journal
- Frontiers in Neurology
- Publication type
- review
- Evidence level
- 1a
- Population
- Patients with fulminant idiopathic intracranial hypertension at risk of vision loss
- Intervention
- Urgent venous sinus stenting
Primary outcomes
Vision preservation; Reduction of intracranial pressure