improvement of symptoms with lumbar puncture is commonly interpreted as meaning that a surgical shunt would be helpful in that person. Normal pressure hydrocephalus can sometimes be managed or ...

As a result of these observations the records of an additional 74 patients in whom similar shunts were inserted for relief of hydrocephalus were reviewed, and two more patients with a comparable ...

I've got one patient who has had more than 100 shunt operations. "Hydrocephalus in isolation shouldn't shorten your life span," he explains. "Simon is unique in terms of activity for somebody who ...