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Normal pressure hydrocephalus treated with ventriculoperitoneal shunt Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad , Mitchell Nicholls , Shirley Huang , Ripa Akter CMAJ Jan 2023, 195 (3) E115-E119; DOI: 10.1503/cmaj ...
A study by Malm et al. (1995) found that the number of patients with INPH who improved from surgical management with a VP shunt declined from 64% at 3 months to 26% at 3 years.
A drug commonly used to treat type 2 diabetes may reduce excess fluid in the brains of patients with hydrocephalus, which ...
After a neurological assessment, a computed tomography (CT) scan, and withdrawal of 50 ml of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) ... As a result of these findings and tests, a ventriculoperitoneal shunt ...
To determine whether examination of CSF obtained from ventricular shunt taps is a more sensitive method of detecting LMD in these patients, we designed a prospective study to compare the findings of ...
Three-year-old Lucas Faram died at the Townsville University Hospital after his ventriculoperitoneal shunt malfunctioned. Skip to main ... The report also identified that a CT scan of the head ...