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What Causes Lump Above The Eyes With Csf Lekage After Brain Surgery?

rohit.pooja: I need to ask on some urgent questions as my Son is in very critical condition in a Hospital rohit.pooja: he has suffered with TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) penetrating skull injury rohit.pooja: Its been now almost 1.5 Months he is hospital and has gone throw a surgery and Lumbar drain procedure rohit.pooja: After the surgery Csf Leak happend from his dura mater tissues and it got accumulated on top of his eyes forming a lump rohit.pooja: after Lumbar Drain was done the pressures got ok and even the lump was removed.. Lumbar drain happened for almost 4 days rohit.pooja: they removed the lumbar drain yesterday .. now its been 24 hrs and we seeing again the lump getting formed rohit.pooja: though with less pressures rohit.pooja: what should be done next shall we wait for csf leaks to get closed on there own
Wed, 27 Jan 2021
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Hi,

You need surgery to repair the defect in dura, apply fibrin glue on the damage site to stop CSF leakage and start tablet Acetazolamide.

Take care. Hope I have answered your question. Let me know if I can assist you further.

Regards,
Dr. Sohaib Azhar, General & Family Physician
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What Causes Lump Above The Eyes With Csf Lekage After Brain Surgery?

Hi, You need surgery to repair the defect in dura, apply fibrin glue on the damage site to stop CSF leakage and start tablet Acetazolamide. Take care. Hope I have answered your question. Let me know if I can assist you further. Regards, Dr. Sohaib Azhar, General & Family Physician