Benign intracranial hypertension

Description

pseudotumor cerebri: Idiopathic intracranial hypertension is a neurological disorder characterized by isolated increased intracranial pressure manifesting with recurrent and persistent headaches, nausea, vomiting, progressive and transient obstruction of the visual field, papilledema. Visual loss can be irreversible.

Data source
FinnGen phenocode G6_BENINTRAHYP
Hospital Discharge registry ICD-10: G932
Cause of Death registry ICD-10: G932
Level in the ICD-hierarchy 3
First defined in version DF2
Ontology
DOID 11459
GWAS catalog 1001132
MESH D011559
SNOMED CT 68267002

Key figures

Sex All Female Male
Number of individuals 45 36 9
Unadjusted prevalence (%) 0.03 0.05 0.02
Mean age at first event (years) 38.04 34.0 54.22
Median number of events / individual 2 2 1

Clinical metrics

Sex All Female Male
Recurrence within 6 months (%) 57.78 61.11 44.44
Case fatality at 5-years (%) 4.44 2.78 11.11

Associations