CSF shunting provides significant symptom improvement in the majority of appropriately evaluated patients. In 2005, an international study group published evidence-based guidelines for the ...

CereVasc today announced the first patient randomized to and treated with the eShunt system in its STRIDE clinical trial.

Medically reviewed by Angela Ryan Lee, MD If you are having an unexplained low-pressure headache, it's possible that you may have a rare condition called a cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak. When you ...

The treatment for INPH is surgical diversion of CSF. This is accomplished by implanting a shunt to drain CSF from either the intracranial ventricular system or the lumbar subarachnoid space to a ...

CSF shunts can experience complications, requiring frequent replacements. .Emergence of Alternative Treatments: Procedures like endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV) are providing non-shunt ...

Children suffering from hydrocephalus, the abnormal accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in the brain, should be careful when using Apple’s popular tablet, the iPad 2: if held within 2 inches of ...

2005). Although no single diagnostic criterion exists to diagnose INPH, or to predict a positive response to VP shunting, a high-volume lumbar tap of 30 50 ml of CSF can be useful as a predictor ...