Females taking testosterone may be at increased risk of intracranial hypertension.

Females   Testosterone  

A case study1 of idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) in a woman taking “gender-affirming” testosterone suggests that there may be a causal link between elevated testosterone and the onset and progression of IIH.

  1. Hornby C, Mollan SP, Mitchell J, Markey KA, Yangou A, Wright BLC, O’Reilly MW, Sinclair AJ. What Do Transgender Patients Teach Us About Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension? Neuroophthalmology. 2017 May 10;41(6):326-329. doi: 10.1080/01658107.2017.1316744. PMID: 29238388; PMCID: PMC5706971. ↩︎
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