[PDF] Top 20 The value of the cerebrospinal fluid tap test for predicting shunt effectiveness in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus

... lumbar tap test (TT) is considered to be useful for predicting a favourable response to shunt surgery, particularly in iNPH ...until pressure was lowered to zero ...for ... See full document

... We have previously reported our entire experience of managing iNPH patients using diagnostic ICP monitor- ing in the pre-operative work-up during the period 2002-2007 [15]. The present subgroup of 62 iNPH patients ... See full document

... CSF pressure < 20 cm H 2 O; e) ventricular filling and block of convexity flow on radionuclide cisternography ...CSF tap test [19] and regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) measurement was performed ... See full document

... after shunt surgery, 29 which is the only treatment of the disease, according to our results after approximately 3 years of follow-up, it is better understood how serial CSF removal can be important for geriatric ... See full document

... For the analysis of the means of continuous data, we used the Wilcoxon signed-rank test to perform nonparamet- ric statistics. Comparisons of percentages of categorical data were performed using the Chi square ... See full document

... p value of ...in predicting the presence of cortical ...in predicting cortical pathology was not confounded by age, education, and disease duration, Pearson correlations were run between the ratio ... See full document

... Introduction: Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) is a condition characterized by increased cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) volume commonly seen in elderly ...including ... See full document

... patients. Previous studies have suggested the usefulness of aqueductal oscillations as a helpful tool for diagnosis of NPH or for selection of patients who will benefit from shunting [27,28]. However, another study ... See full document

... 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 ...additional value [14] but some researchers ... See full document

... with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) have reduced cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) concentrations of amyloid-β (Aβ) and α- and β-cleaved soluble forms of amyloid ... See full document

... We retrospectively reviewed the medical records for brain images and clinical features of all 2196 patients, who are > 50 years of age and who underwent a whole body FDG- PET/CT scanning at Kindai University Hospital ... See full document

... 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 ...non-operative ... See full document

... the reliability between the 2 investigators was not sufficient (␬ ⫽ 0.36, Fig 2 and Table 1). Therefore, we created a new grading scale, the Sylvian fissure ordinal, an ordinal scale with 3 levels and grad- ing still ... See full document

... extracellular fluid and decreased brain metabolism of periventricular zone in iNPH may contribute to this phenomenon of reduc- tion in CSF t-tau and p-tau levels in iNPH ... See full document

... Kasprowicz et al. describe three subcategories of B waves based on the investigation of their unique shape: (1) symmetrical ICP B waves, (2) asymmetrical ICP B waves, and (3) slow ICP B waves with plateau phase. They ... See full document

... elevated pressure levels together with correspond- ing net flow ...detailed pressure/flow relationship can be ...the pressure range with a trajectory through P r and with the slope corresponding to C ... See full document

... symptoms and findings (gait disturbance, incontinence, and dementia) combined with radiological ventriculome- galy. Based on our findings at neurological examination, the severity of clinical iNPH was graded using a NPH ... See full document

... The high-volume lumbar tap test (LTT) is one of the most widely used invasive tests to predict shunt response. It consists of a lumbar puncture wherein a large volume (typically 40 –50 mL) of CSF is ... See full document

... of idiopathic NPH remain undefined. In addition, idiopathic NPH may frequently affect the elderly (20–22), in whom these features may be associated with age-related brain atrophy (23, ...called ... See full document

... Background: Cerebrospinal fl uid (CSF) pressure measurement is routinely performed via a conventional water column ...Opening pressure and closing pressure measurements were done with a digital ... See full document