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#CSFleak expert #neurosurgeon #spinalCSFleak @CedarsSinai Los Angeles #SIH [email protected]

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RT @NeuroradLal: An INCREDIBLE #spinalcsfleak conference in Amsterdam! So much knowledge sharing, fresh ideas, hard hitting talks, controve….
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Grateful for a ⁦@CMECedarsSinai⁩ well-run 2025 Amsterdam CSF leak meeting. An impactful Royal patient testimony and call to action, thought provoking scientific presentations and posters, introducing the ⁦@issclsociety⁩, and ⁦camaraderie ⁦@spinalCSFleak
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Congratulations to ⁦our former ⁦@CedarsSinai⁩ resident #DrAngeliqueTay’s 6th CSF leak paper! A systematic review of CSF-venous fistulas in patients with a good story for SIH but normal brain & spine imaging. Yield is not zero! ⁦@spinalCSFleak
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An unforgettable evening with patients caregivers and physicians passionate about solutions for superficial siderosis. Humbled to meet the giants of SS care #ProfessorDavidWerring and #DrMichaelLevy@Harvard⁩ Loeb House ⁦@LivingwithSS⁩ ⁦@spinalCSFleak
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Visit beautiful Amsterdam, the Netherlands 🇳🇱, in 4 weeks to participate in the 2-day Intracranial Hypotension conference hosted by ⁦@CedarsSinai@DukeU@FreiburgUni⁩ ⁦@UvA_Amsterdam⁩ sponsored by ⁦@spinalCSFleak
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Spontaneous intracranial hypotension is caused by spinal CSF loss in 99.9% of patients. In this girl the cause was not only at the level of the skull base but CSF was exposed to the milieu extérieur resulting in 2 bouts of meningitis ⁦@spinalCSFleak
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RT @marcelmaya: A new study on the crucial role of Ferumoxytol-enhanced MRV in embolization of CSF Venous Fistulas:. Spinal venous anatomy….
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RT @AndrewCallenMD: Great #CSFLeak / #SIH session at #asnr2025 with my friends and role models @PeterGKranz and @WouterSchievink . @TheASNR….
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RT @LivingwithSS: The Inaugural Superficial Siderosis Symposium is coming this June. Join researchers, clinicians, and patients as we unite….
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We see spontaneous fistulas daily but traumatic ones are distinctly less common. This young man developed orthostatic headaches 2 years after a brachial plexus avulsion. Surgery with ⁦@DreBoyke⁩ was able to address both a lateral leak and a fistula ⁦@spinalCSFleak
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Hurt his back while hunting elk. Now an inoperable pseudomeningocele after 1 discectomy and 5 CSF leak repair attempts. What is risk of superficial siderosis? Maybe ⁦@LivingwithSS⁩ symposium in Boston or in Amsterdam will tell ⁦@spinalCSFleak
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An amazing presentation by ⁦@HopkinsMedicine⁩ MD/PhD student Cassie Parks at the #AANAM today on our research on fibrillin-2 (FBN2) mutations in patients with spontaneous spinal CSF leaks. This groundbreaking research was performed in Hal Dietz lab ⁦@spinalCSFleak
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Getting ready for an afternoon session ⁦⁦@AANmember⁩ in beautiful San Diego on low and high CSF pressure disorders with fellow CSF aficionados ⁦@Ferdinandhui#DrKKnievel #DrCSchusse. ⁦@spinalCSFleak
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Submit your abstract for the 2-day Amsterdam Intracranial Hypotension conference. Be part of the discussion on CSF leak care. Submit at Oral presentation for the two best abstracts and $2000 for the #1 abstract (educational grant) ⁦@spinalCSFleak
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RT @LivingwithSS: Superficial Siderosis Symposium June 11-13 2025 #teamsuperficialsiderosis .
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International collaboration in CSF leak care is essential. We have been fortunate to host CSF leak specialist Dr M Slot from ⁦@amsterdamumc⁩. Dr Slot is the youngest and first woman chair in neurosurgery in the Netherlands ⁦@spinalCSFleak⁩ ⁦@AmsNeuroscience
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It took this metal hook 23 years to make its way through the dura resulting in a CSF leak with intractable orthostatic headaches and brain sagging @isscl@spinalCSFleak⁩ ⁦@SRS_org
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RT @spinalCSFleak: The Spinal CSF Leak Foundation is proud to support this year's 2-day Intracranial Hypotension Conference in Amsterdam, ⁩….
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RT @LeviChazen: Incredible #ASSR25 panel with the world’s experts on CSF leak! @The_ASSR
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