Indications for shunting in patients with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus presenting with dementia and brain atrophy (atypical idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus)

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 38-47

  Takeuchi, Totaro ^a   Kasahara, Eishi ^a   Iwasaki, Mitsuyoshi ^a   Mima, Tatsuo ^b   Mori, Koreaki ^b  

^a Higashimatsuyama Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

^b KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain atrophy; Cerebral arteriovenous difference of oxygen content; Cerebrospinal fluid outflow resistance; Normal pressure hydrocephalus; Serum alpha antichymotrypsin; Shunt surgery

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 ANTICHYMOTRYPSIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033982392     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.40.38     Document Type: Article

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