Normal pressure hydrocephalus syndrome
Psychotic Symptoms and Idiopathic Adult Hydrocephalism: Case Report
... Normal pressure hydrocephalus (PNH) can be divided into two categories: secondary and ...idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus, since the patient started the symptomatic ...
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Nonsense mutation in CFAP43 causes normal-pressure hydrocephalus with ciliary abnormalities
... 72 variants found only in affected individuals. To identify compelling candidates, we first filtered out simple missense variants. After filtration, 13 loci remained as candidates (supplemental data, ...
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Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus Accompanied by Seizure: A Case Report Hakan Ak 1* , Tugay Atalay 1, Yurdanur Akyüz2 , Nermin Tanik 3, Ismail Gül en 4 and Asuman Çelikbilek 3
... other hydrocephalus disorders (aqueductal stenosis, arrested hydrocephalus, long-standing overt ventriculomegaly syndrome, non-communicating hydrocephalus), infectious disorders (Lyme, human ...
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Analysis of postural sway in patients with normal pressure hydrocephalus: effects of shunt implantation
... Normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) is a patho- logical process caused by excessive accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid in the intracranial space related to unbalanced production and absorption of ...
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Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus: Surgical Outcome of Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy Comparing VP Shunt
... term normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) was given by Hakim and Adams ...elevated pressure of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), it is associated with ventricular enlargement for unknown ...the ...
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The Kuopio idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus protocol: initial outcome of 175 patients
... The lumbar tap test (LTT) has been used to temporar- ily emulate the function of a CSF shunt and to predict the outcome of treatment [2, 11–13] (Table 1). It has been demonstrated that a larger volume of drained CSF ...
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Rapid resolution of an acute subdural hematoma by increasing the shunt valve pressure in a 63 year old man with normal pressure hydrocephalus with a ventriculoperitoneal shunt: a case report and literature review
... with normal-pressure hydrocephalus and an adjustable valve ...valve pressure was then reduced to treat the NPH symptoms, and our patient’s neurological condition improved upon ...
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MR Elastography Demonstrates Increased Brain Stiffness in Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
... MATERIALS AND METHODS: MR elastography was performed on 10 patients with normal pressure hydrocephalus and 21 age- and sex-matched volunteers with no known neurologic disorders. Image acquisition was ...
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Imaging characteristics in patients with Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus at Tertiary Health Care Hospital
... 14 | P a g e temporal and parietal cortical areas. Several investigators have assessed the reactivity of cerebral circulation in presumed NPH and have found that preserved reactivity predicts a good prognosis after shunt ...
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Increased Intracranial Volume: A Clue to the Etiology of Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus?
... external hydrocephalus is characterized by decreased CSF ...ternal hydrocephalus or will these patients always have decreased CSF resorptive capacity? Lack of in- creasing head circumference after 18 months ...
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A computerized neuropsychological test battery designed for idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus
... The Pearson correlation between test and retest was used as reliability estimate. For the figure copy test, the phi-correlation coefficient was used. When applicable, the standard error of measurement (SEm) was ...
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Comorbidity of diabetes mellitus in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus: a systematic literature review
... Normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) is a subtype of hydrocephalus that has an incidence of ...a normal intracranial pressure. This results in a normal CSF pres- sure ...
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Diffusional Kurtosis along the Corticospinal Tract in Adult Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
... Patients with NPH were selected from a pool of patients with enlarged ventricles and gait impairment referred to the New York University Adult Hydrocephalus Evaluation Program and evalu- ated by a neurologist ...
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Frontotemporal dementia as a comorbidity to idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH): a short review of literature and an unusual case
... AD-related changes [7]. There is also increasing evidence that iNPH may have a genetic component [27–31]. We have previously observed that over 40% of iNPH patients present, on their cortical biopsies, with either ...
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Effect of resting pressure on the estimate of cerebrospinal fluid outflow conductance
... during the infusion. Monitoring of variation in central venous pressure during infusion tests could be a possi- ble way forward. In addition to the systematic difference between methods, there was also a variation ...
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The Pathophysiology of Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus: Cerebral Ischemia or Altered Venous Hemodynamics?
... of normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) stress the importance of ischemia in the deep white ...the normal range to see if deep brain ischemia or superficial hemodynamic changes contribute to ...
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MR differential diagnosis of normal pressure hydrocephalus and Alzheimer disease: significance of perihippocampal fissures
... A number of comments should be made regarding the objective analysis. The “pure CSF” ROI was ob- tained from a ventricle in which visual inspection of the sections above and below eliminated any possibil- ity of partial ...
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Association of deep white matter infarction with chronic communicating hydrocephalus: implications regarding the possible origin of normal pressure hydrocephalus
... MR findings of communicating hydrocephalus ventriculomegaly and increased aqueductal CSF flow void were sought in 78 consecutive patients with presumed deep white matter infarction, and [r] ...
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Aqueductal Stroke Volume: Comparisons with Intracranial Pressure Scores in Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
... RESULTS: No correlations between aqueductal stroke volume and preoperative scores of mean intracranial pressure or mean wave amplitudes were observed. Preoperative aqueductal stroke volume was not different ...
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Differential Diagnosis of Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus by MRI Mean Diffusivity Histogram Analysis
... of normal pressure hydrocephalus is challenging because the clinical symptoms and radiographic appearance of NPH often overlap those of other conditions, including age-related neurodegenerative ...
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