The 44-year-old started feeling a mild pain in his leg, which prompted him to visit his doctor two weeks later.

The Grade 10 student is the founder of Parent Care Packages. Blue bags are filled with toiletries, phone chargers and ...

The unnamed 44-year-old from the south of France started feeling a mild pain in his leg, which prompted him to visit his ...

One month after Merrick was born, his mom, Lindsey, felt that something wasn’t quite right with her baby boy. He’d become colicky and there seemed to be something different about the shape of his head ...

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

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.

Dorothy Sorlie, at one point, was afraid her life was coming to an abrupt end. “My husband hadn’t given up, but I did,” said Sorlie. “I thought, ‘Well, this is the way life is.’” From being fairly ...

Chadlyn Traylor, now one of the state's top senior basketball players, was diagnosed with hydrocephalus as an infant. It's a ...

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.

Incidence rates in our study were higher than previously reported figures for shunt surgery for congenital hydrocephalus alone (24.8 per 100 000 in Denmark 1986–1998),14 although acquired disorders ...

“After doing a ‘shunt series ... we’ve now realized that the hydrocephalus was a tender mercy that led us to find the tumors.” Owen had a seven-hour surgery to remove the biggest ...

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