For example, previous abdominal surgery or a history of peritonitis ... Both patients' idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus symptoms improved following shunt placement.

About five to seven children undergo surgery here every day. Hydrocephalus can be congenital ... It’s a big problem, especially if a child has a shunt — or plastic tube — implanted to ...

Student nurse and triallist Jessica Grainger was diagnosed with hydrocephalus in 2023, after three years of migraines. Her first shunt failed ... since that first surgery," Grainger said.

This most probably is a result of hydrocephalus ... done either by inserting a device known as a shunt into the brain, or through a procedure called Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy (ETV).

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

Instead, contact with the ventricular wall and the age of the patient at their first surgery emerged ... enhance the effectiveness of shunt systems in treating hydrocephalus.

Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (INPH ... 6 Placement of a shunt is a neurosurgical procedure performed under general anesthesia, taking less than an hour to complete.