Extended long-term (> 5 Years) outcome of cerebrospinal fluid shunting in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus

Neurosurgery

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 295-301

  Mirzayan, Mohammad Javad ^a   Luetjens, Goetz ^a   Borremans, Jan Juliaan ^b   Regel, Jens Peter ^c   Krauss, Joachim Kurt ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c Department of Neurosurgery   (Germany)

Author keywords

Long term follow up; Normal pressure hydrocephalus; Outcome; Shunt

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAIT DISORDER; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICTURITION DISORDER; NEOPLASM; NORMOTENSIVE HYDROCEPHALUS; PNEUMONIA; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOMETRY; SCORING SYSTEM; STROKE; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URGE INCONTINENCE; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; VENTRICULOATRIAL SHUNT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS, NORMAL PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77954967738     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000371972.74630.EC     Document Type: Article

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