Exempel på hydrocephalus

• The content of narrative discourse in children and adolescents after early onset hydrocephalus and in normally developing age peers.

• The blood - brain barrier may become an important route for water elimination in obstructive hydrocephalus when other routes or water exit are impaired.

• Subdural hematoma, normal pressure hydrocephalus, and brain tumours are rare conditions treatable by neurosurgery.

• True primary congenital hydrocephalus is a rare and non-homogeneous group of malformations, not related to neural tube malformations in either genetic or epidemiological characteristics.

• Treating normal pressure hydrocephalus reduces overall quality-adjusted survival.

• At the final paediatric check-up, two more children were found to have developed hydrocephalus.

• However, they are not necessarily on the same order as those that occur in cases of isolated hydrocephalus.

• Surgical treatment of normal pressure hydrocephalus may reduce quality adjusted survival and should only be undertaken within clinical trials.

• Cognitive changes after cerebrospinal fluid shunting in young adults with spina bifida and assumed arrested hydrocephalus.

• Obliteration of the subarachnoid space and 'dangling' of the choroid plexus are observed in hydrocephalus.

• Venrriculo-pentoneal shunts were required in four patients for progressive hydrocephalus or to relieve the pressure effects of intraventricular hemorrhage.

• Physicians reported 22 such cases, all of which involved newborns with spina bifida and hydrocephalus.

• There are compelling, beneficence-based ethical reasons for concluding that continuing existence of fetuses with isolated hydrocephalus is in their interest.

• However, in the case of obstructive hydrocephalus, usually due to a tumour, progress is rapid and confusion, obtundation and coma occur early.

• The mechanism underlying this change is unclear, although there is no evidence that increased cranial pressure, such is the case with hydrocephalus, is responsible.