Letter
Dialysis disequilibrium syndrome in neurointensive care unit: the benefit of intracranial pressure monitoring
Department of Intensive Care and Anesthesiology, Teaching Military Sainte Anne Hospital, BP20545, 83041 Toulon Cedex 9, France
Critical Care 2012, 16:472 doi:10.1186/cc11877
Published: 31 December 2012First paragraph (this article has no abstract)
Dialysis disequilibrium syndrome (DDS) is a brain disease characterized by neurological symptoms due to cerebral edema after hemodialysis (HD). However, a direct measurement of intracranial pressure (ICP) rarely objectified this edema [1]. We report the case of a patient whose DDS was diagnosed by an increase of ICP.
