New Hydrocephalus Study Findings Reported from National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

2012 MAR 11 -- New research, "Conservative versus surgical management of idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus: a prospective double-blind randomized controlled trial: study protocol," is the subject of a report. According to the authors of recent research from London, United Kingdom, "There is no level I evidence to indicate whether placement of a shunt is effective in the management of idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (INPH), because no trial has as yet compared the placement of a shunt versus no shunt in a randomized controlled manner. We started recruiting patients into a prospective double-blind randomized controlled study aiming to provide class I evidence...

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