[Clinical signs and therapy of intermittent normotensive hydrocephalus (author's transl)].
Ventricular fluid pressure (VFP) has been continuously recorded for several days in a series of 9 patients with Intermittently Normotensive Hydrocephalus. This entity can be diagnosed with a reasonable degree of certainty by this method, due to the occurrence of periodic increases of VFP--mainly of ramp-waves as described in the paper. Thus, the designation Intermittently Normotensive Hydrocephalus appears to be more exact. Therapy by means of CSF-shunting procedures is more successful in cases with clearcut periodic rises in VFP.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002552:Cerebral Ventricles; D002557:Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006849:Hydrocephalus / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006850:Hydrocephalus, Normal Pressure / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery; D007427:Intracranial Pressure; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis
Klinik und Therapie des intermittierend normotensiven Hydrocephalus.