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Hydrocephalus

Recent findings in hydrocephalus described by researchers from University of California, Division of Neurosurgery

Published in Hospital Law Weekly, February 14th, 2008

Investigators publish new data in the report 'Success and complication rates of endoscopic third ventriculostomy for adult hydrocephalus: a series of 108 patients.' "The clinical response to ETV of adult patients with noncommunicating hydrocephalus may differ from that of children because of such factors as chronicity of hydrocephalus, physiologic differences in CSF dynamics, and changes in brain viscoelastic properties. We sought to determine which factors might predict clinical success and failure," scientists in the United States report.

"A retrospective single-surgeon case series analysis was performed. This was a consecutive case series for which the goal of the...

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