Congenital hydrocephalus: a review of recent advances in genetic etiology and molecular mechanisms

XY Liu, X Song, M Czosnyka, C Robba… - Military Medical …, 2024 - Springer
The global prevalence rate for congenital hydrocephalus (CH) is approximately one out of
every five hundred births with multifaceted predisposing factors at play. Genetic influences …

Zebrafish as a Model Organism for Congenital Hydrocephalus: Characteristics and Insights

K Wang, Z Tang, Y Yang, Y Guo, Z Liu, Z Su, X Li… - Zebrafish, 2024 - liebertpub.com
Hydrocephalus is a cerebrospinal fluid-related disease that usually manifests as abnormal
dilation of the ventricles, with a triad of clinical findings including walking difficulty, reduced …

Normative trajectories of extra-axial cerebrospinal fluid during childhood and adolescence defined in a clinically-acquired MRI dataset

AS Mandal, L Dorfschmidt, JM Schabdach, M Gardner… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Background: Extra-axial cerebrospinal fluid (eaCSF) refers to the CSF in the subarachnoid
spaces that surrounds the brain parenchyma. Benign enlargement of the subarachnoid …

Antibiotic-impregnated shunts: a paradigm shift in hydrocephalus management

A Anand, AO Ajayi, MP Singh… - … Journal of Surgery …, 2024 - journals.lww.com
The standard treatment of hydrocephalus involves the placement of ventriculoperitoneal
(VP) shunts to divert excess fluid from the brain to the abdominal cavity [1–4]. However …

Spontaneous shunt independence in paediatric tumour-related hydrocephalus: case series and review of the literature

G Bankov, MD Cearns, A Amato-Watkins… - Child's Nervous …, 2023 - Springer
Purpose Hydrocephalus is commonly associated with paediatric posterior fossa tumours
and their resection. This is commonly managed by ventriculoperitoneal shunt insertion …