Summary of major postoperative findings
| Study | No. of patients with remission of, improvement in or stabilization of symptoms | Mean LP OP,* cm H2O | Mean BMI,† kg/m2 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Headaches n = 35 | Visual symptoms n = 7 | Pulsatile tinnitus n = 21 | Papilledema n = 21 | Visual field deficits n = 4 | At 6 mo | At 12 mo | ||
| Amaral et al. 1987 (18) | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | 17 | — | — |
| Chandra et al. 2007 (19) | 1 | — | — | 1 | 1 | 12 | 33 | — |
| Egan et al. 2011 (20) | 4 | 2 | — | 3 | 1 | — | — | — |
| Graber et al. 2010 (21) | 1 | — | — | — | — | 10 | — | — |
| Leslie et al. 2008 (22) | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | — | 32 | 24 |
| Levin et al. 2015 (23) | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | 17 | 36 | 35 |
| Nadkarni et al. 2004 (25) | ||||||||
| Patient 1 | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 23.4 |
| Patient 2 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| Noggle and Rodning 1986 (26) | — | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | — | — | — |
| Soto et al. 2005 (27) | 1 | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — |
| Stangherlin et al. 2008 (28) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 35.3 |
| Sugerman et al. 1999 (30) | 23 | — | 21 | 12 | — | — | — | — |
| Um et al. 2013 (31) | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 52 |