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 ...

These catheters are used in shunt systems to facilitate the drainage of excess CSF, thereby alleviating pressure on the brain. However, one of the significant challenges in the use of ventricular ...

CereVasc, Inc. announced the initial results of its United States pilot clinical study of the CereVasc eShunt system in the ...

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 the magnetically programmable shunt ...

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 ...

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 ...