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Research reports from A. Watanabe and co-authors provide new insights into life sciences

Published in Telemedicine Business Week, February 24th, 2010

Investigators publish new data in the report 'Overdrainage of Cerebrospinal Fluid caused by detachment of the pressure control cam in a programmable valve after 3-Tesla Magnetic Resonance imaging.' "The authors report a rare case of overdrainage of the CSF caused by the malfunction of a Codman-Hakim programmable valve (CHPV) following a 3-T MR imaging procedure. Nine years ago this 72-year-old woman underwent ventriculoperitoneal shunt placement with a CHPV system for hydrocephalus due to subarachnoid hemorrhage," researchers in Iida, Japan report.

"The postoperative course was uneventful and the system functioned well. A radiograph obtained immediately after 3-T MR...

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