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Case Reports
. 2018 Dec 17:2018:7013916.
doi: 10.1155/2018/7013916. eCollection 2018.

Transient Acquired Hypoventilation Syndrome Secondary to Uncal Herniation Is Successfully Treated with Bilevel Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation

Linle Hou  1   2 , Jonathan Stoll  1   2 , Lauren Pioppo  1   2 , Jack Xu  1   2 , Wajahat Khan  2
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Transient Acquired Hypoventilation Syndrome Secondary to Uncal Herniation Is Successfully Treated with Bilevel Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation

Linle Hou et al. Case Rep Crit Care. .

Abstract

Background: To describe an unusual presentation of acquired hypoventilation syndrome treated successfully with noninvasive positive pressure ventilation.

Case presentation: We report a case report of a 48-year-old male who presented to the emergency room for recurrent syncope. He was found to have a ventricular colloid cyst causing uncal herniation. The patient was noted to be intermittently apneic and bradypnic. Transient hypoventilation was successfully treated with noninvasive positive pressure ventilation and the patient made a full neurological recovery following transcallosal resection of the colloid cyst. Subsequently, the hypoventilation resolved.

Conclusion: With prompt surgical intervention, full neurological recovery is possible after cerebral uncal herniation. In rare circumstances, this can result in transient alveolar hypoventilation. Bilevel noninvasive positive pressure ventilation can be used to successfully manage the hypoventilation.

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Figure 1
The marked lateral ventricle hydrocephalus secondary to a 16 x 15 x 15 mm colloid cyst within the third ventricle seen on CT scan at admission from the sagittal view.
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Similar marked hydrocephalus and colloid cyst seen from the coronal view.
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