title: [Normal pressure hydrocephalus in geriatric patients--a treatable form of dementia].
abstract: Six geriatric patients are presented who were treated because of normal pressure hydrocephalus. A tentative diagnosis was made if dementia, gait disturbance, and incontinence together with a typical CAT-scan were present. In these cases an operation was carried out. After ventriculo-peritoneal shunting clinical improvements were seen in four patients. Postoperative complications were hygromas in three patients and a shunt-dislocation in another patient. A chronic subdural bleeding was recorded also in one of these patients with only a temporary success in this case. Two patients showed no clinical improvement at any time. However, in these cases additional neurologic symptoms together with typical CAT-scan changes were present. Before making a decision for an operation vascular processes and Alzheimer's disease should be ruled out.
authors.affiliation: Geriatrische Klinik, Radioonkologie, Nuklearmedizin der Städtischen Kliniken Duisburg.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Bettag
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Fiebach
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Leven
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Magnus
authors.forename: H B
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Makoski
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wandt
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002557:Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts; D003704:Dementia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006849:Hydrocephalus / Q000150:complications*; D006850:Hydrocephalus, Normal Pressure / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
vernacular_title: Normaldruckhydrozephalus bei geriatrischen Patienten--eine behandelbare Form der Demenz.