title: [Congenital hydrocephalus--initial status (prognosis) of congenital hydrocephalus].
abstract: Only 1/4-1/3 of the surviving patients have severe neurological findings, are continuously treated with anticonvulsives and/or have a severe mental retardation; the same number of school children is totally dependent on nursing and ineducable. All patients remain shunt-dependent. A few prognostic pointers can be obtained from the aetiology of hydrocephalus, from the occurrence of perinatal pathology and from the head circumference at birth. In cases with a head circumference of more than 45 cm shunting should be performed beyond the neonatal period only for nursing reasons.
authors.affiliation: Chirurgische Universitäts-Kinderklinik, Inselspital, Bern.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kaiser
mesh_terms: D002508:Cephalometry; D002557:Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006849:Hydrocephalus / Q000151:congenital* / Q000601:surgery; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality; D011379:Prognosis
vernacular_title: Der konnatale Hydrozephalus--Ist-Zustand (Prognose) des konnatalen Hydrozephalus.