Obesity Abstracts

Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) classically occurs in women with obesity and is characterised by raised intracranial pressure. Weight loss leads to reduction in intracranial pressure. We present a case of a 35-year-old female who was urgently referred to Imperial Weight Centre. She had recently undergone revision of a right ventriculoperitoneal shunt for longstanding IIH which had not resolved her high-pressure symptoms and continued to require therapeutic lumbar pu...