The intracranial pressure of the patients with mild form of craniosynostosis.
BACKGROUND
While raised intracranial pressure (ICP) is a well recognized complication affecting children with syndromic craniosynostosis, certain percentage of the patients with non-syndromic craniosynostosis may have some problems related to increased ICP, such as developmental delay or visual problem. However, it is still not clear how many percent of and/or which types of craniosynostosis patients suffer from those symptoms, especially in older patients.


OBJECTIVE
The aim of this study was to examine the ICP of older children with mild form of craniosynostosis to determine if any of them should be surgically treated.


METHODS
We measured ICP before making the decision for surgical intervention.


RESULTS
Twenty-five of thirty-six patients had raised ICP in our series.


CONCLUSIONS
All of the 25 patients were treated surgically and followed-up after more than 1 year. All patients improved in some degree. Further investigations should be performed to determine what is the threshold for raised ICP in children.
Department of Neurosurgery, Kansai Medical University, 10-15 Fumizono, Moriguchi, Osaka, Japan. inagakit@takii.kmu.ac.jp
Takayuki
T
Inagaki
Shigeo
S
Kyutoku
Takatoshi
T
Seno
Takuya
T
Kawaguchi
Takashi
T
Yamahara
Hideyuki
H
Oshige
Yasuo
Y
Yamanouchi
Keiji
K
Kawamoto
D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003398:Craniosynostoses / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D019586:Intracranial Hypertension / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D007427:Intracranial Pressure / Q000502:physiology*; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D016896:Treatment Outcome