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"Presents information on pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus. Highlights the importance of determining the benefits of surgical implantation of a VP shunt. Because NPH is often incorrectly diagnosed with disorders such as Parkinson disease, the challenges faced in accurate diagnosis of NPH are discussed. Describes clinical signs and symptoms, radiographic findings, and diagnostic testing"--Provided by publisher.

Hydrocephalus --- Hydrocephaly --- Water on the brain --- Brain --- Diagnosis. --- Treatment. --- Diseases

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When the brain suffers an injury, the effects can be delayed and unpredictable. Cerebrospinal fluid can slowly build up, causing dangerously high levels of intracranial pressure (ICP), and the brain tissue can be displaced into adjacent compartments, resulting in cerebral herniation syndrome (CHS). Within the burgeoning field of neurocritical care, experts are just beginning to understand the nuanced, sometimes counterintuitive relationship between ICP and CHS. Written by leading researchers who also have extensive first-hand clinical experience treating brain injury patients, Cerebral Herniation Syndromes and Intracranial Hypertension provides an up-to-date guide to this complex aspect of neurocritical care. Drawing from expertise gained working in high-volume medical centers, the book's contributors reveal that there is no universal metric for gauging acceptable levels of intracranial pressure. Instead, they demonstrate the best practices for offering patients individualized care, based on their specific conditions and manifest symptoms. Bringing together internationally-renowned neurocritical care experts from a variety of neurology, critical care, surgery, and neurosurgery disciplines, this volume takes a comprehensive look at a complicated issue. A concise, practical, and timely review, Cerebral Herniation Syndromes and Intracranial Hypertension offers vital information for all medical personnel concerned with improving neurocritical patient care.

Encephalocele --- Intracranial hypertension. --- Benign intracranial hypertension --- Hypertension, Intracranial --- Otitic hydrocephalus --- Pseudotumor cerebri --- Serous meningitis --- Hypertension --- Intracranial pressure --- Cerebral hernia --- Brain --- Neural tube --- Skull --- Treatment. --- Hernia --- Abnormalities

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The contributions in this volume, presented at the 5th International Hydrocephalus Workshop in May 2010 in Crete, Greece, give the present state-of-the-art in timely diagnosis and treatment of hydrocephalus. The topics covered include advances in management of both pediatric and adult hydrocephalus, identifying shunt responders, clinical experiences in endoscopic third ventriculostomy, clinical trials, pathophysiology, experimental studies, and the new classification for hydrocephalus.

Hydrocephalus -- Congresses. --- Hydrocephalus. --- Controlled Clinical Trials as Topic --- Intracranial Hypertension --- Tomography --- Brain Diseases --- Diagnostic Imaging --- Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures --- Clinical Trials as Topic --- Central Nervous System Diseases --- Epidemiologic Study Characteristics as Topic --- Nervous System Diseases --- Evaluation Studies as Topic --- Diagnosis --- Investigative Techniques --- Diseases --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms --- Epidemiologic Methods --- Quality of Health Care --- Public Health --- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- Environment and Public Health --- Health Care --- Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic --- Hydrocephalus --- Magnetic Resonance Imaging --- Medicine --- Surgery & Anesthesiology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Surgery - General and By Type --- Neurology --- Brain --- Hydrocephaly --- Water on the brain --- Medicine. --- Neurosurgery. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Nerves --- Neurosurgery --- Surgery

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Written and edited by leading international authorities in the field, this book provides an in-depth review of knowledge of complications of CSF shunting, with emphasis on prevention, identification, and management. It covers the full range of shunt-related complications and the various associated adverse consequences that remain common despite significant improvements in imaging techniques and therapeutic methods. The chapters are organized into three parts: introduction, complications of extrathecal CSF shunt devices, and complications of endoscopy. In addition to providing clinicians and investigators with the most pertinent current evidence, the book looks forward to future areas of hydrocephalus research and to innovative therapeutic philosophies. This comprehensive reference book will be an ideal source for neurosurgeons seeking both basic and more sophisticated information and procedures relating to the complications associated with CSF shunting. It will also contribute in overcoming the problem of lack of knowledge of basic fluid dynamics and workings of the shunts – knowledge that is essential for optimal care of hydrocephalic patients. .

Medicine & Public Health. --- Neurosurgery. --- Pediatrics. --- Medicine. --- Médecine --- Pédiatrie --- Hydrocephalus. --- Surgery & Anesthesiology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Surgery - General and By Type --- Cerebrospinal fluid. --- Hydrocephaly --- Water on the brain --- Cerebrorachidian fluid --- CSF (Cerebrospinal fluid) --- Brain --- Body fluids --- Spinal cord --- Diseases --- Paediatrics --- Pediatric medicine --- Medicine --- Children --- Nerves --- Neurosurgery --- Health and hygiene --- Surgery --- Nervous system --- Surgery.

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Since the first edition of this book, the impressive development of neuroendoscopy has dramatically changed the surgical approach to hydrocephalus, the main pathology pediatric neurosurgeons worldwide have to deal with. This revised and updated second edition, written by worldwide leaders in the field, fully reflects this progress: not only existing chapters have been reviewed whenever required, but new ones have been added thus taking into consideration every aspect of hydrocephalus, even when associated with the rarest pathologies. The general part include now more data on history, biomechanics, circulation and molecular basis. Special consideration for fetal surgery has been added, whereas the section on neonatal hydrocephalus has been further developed. Section 4, on the different pathologies associated with hydrocephalus, has been significantly expanded. and is now amazingly detailed, as well as the section on shunt treatment. Infections are now dealt with in two different chapters, and special attention to shunt complications (the nightmare of every Pediatric Neurosurgeon.) is paid in five different chapters. A very complete overview of the endoscopic treatment, that will surely draw the reader’s attention thanks to the wonderful full color images, is also included. Written by acknowledged experts in the field, this title is an indispensable tool for all those facing this pathology in their daily practice.

Neurosurgery. --- Pediatrics. --- Neurology. --- Radiology, Medical. --- Neurosciences. --- Neuroradiology. --- Neural sciences --- Neurological sciences --- Neuroscience --- Medical sciences --- Nervous system --- Clinical radiology --- Radiology, Medical --- Radiology (Medicine) --- Medical physics --- Medicine --- Neuropsychiatry --- Paediatrics --- Pediatric medicine --- Children --- Nerves --- Neurosurgery --- Diseases --- Health and hygiene --- Surgery --- Hydrocephalus in children. --- Pediatric neurology. --- Brain --- Diseases. --- Brain diseases --- Psychology, Pathological --- Neurology --- Pediatric neurology --- Neurology . --- Neuroradiography --- Neuroradiology --- Neuroscience. --- Surgery. --- Radiography.