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. 2018 Sep 28;9:819. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2018.00819

Table 4.

ICHD-3 criteria for headache attributed to IIH (18).

Headache attributed to IIH
(A) New headache, or a significant worsening of a pre-existing headache, fulfilling criterion C
(B) Both of the following:
  1. Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) has been diagnosed

  2. cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure exceeds 250 mm CSF (or 280 mm CSF in obese children)

(C) Either or both of the following:
  1. Headache has developed or significantly worsened in temporal relation to IIH, or led to its discovery

  2. Headache is accompanied by either or both of following:
    1. pulsatile tinnitus
    2. papilloedema
(D) Not better accounted for by another ICHD-3 diagnosis