Background: Hydrocephalus is a common disorder in pediatric neurosurgery. Notwithstanding recent improved therapeutic strategies for the management of pediatric hydrocephalus, there continues to be a significant mortality rate in children. The present study aims to determine the long-term survival and predictor factors of death in these patients. Methods: The data and recordings of pediatric hy...

Hydrocephalus is characterized by an imbalance of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) formation and absorption. It is manifested as a dilatation of the ventricular system. About 55% of all hydrocephalus cases have congenital origin. There are two types of hydrocephalus: communicating and non-communicating with subarachnoid space and the diagnosis depends on the computed tomography (CT) and magnetic reson...

A 5-day-old female Holstein calf was necropsied because of lethargy, recumbency and anorexia. At necropsy, multiple gross defects were evident in several organs, including unclosed sutures of skull bones, asymmetrical orbits, doming of the skull bones, hydrocephalus, hydranencephaly, cleft palate, brachygnathia, ventricular septal defect, mitral valve dysplasia and rudimentary lungs. On microsc...

GOLDENHAR (1952) reviewed the literature relating to a syndrome consisting of epibulbar dermoids or lipodermoids, auricular appendices, and certain skeletal anomalies. Forty such cases or variants thereof have so far been recorded and Sugar (1966) added three more. We have recently seen an infant with ocular epibulbar dermoids, auricular appendices, congenital hydrocephalus, meningo-encephaloce...

Purpose: Hydrocephalus, abnormal accumulation of CSF in the ventricles, is one most common diseases brain. Ventriculoperitoneal shunting commonest procedures for management hydrocephalus. Assessment and evaluation clinical outcome, following VP shunt, should be carried out to decrease rates complications this procedure. Clinical audit plays a vital role identifying developing effective methods ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the success rate of endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV) for treating obstructive hydrocephalus. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional observational study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY The Neurosurgery Department of PGMI, Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar, from May 2010 to November 2011. METHODOLOGY Patients with obstructive hydrocephalus due to aqueductal stenosis, tectal an...

OBJECTIVE To verify whether Down's syndrome and neural tube defects arise more often in the same family than expected by chance. DESIGN Population and familial survey. SETTING Network of maternity hospitals in the Latin American collaborative study of congenital malformations (ECLAMC) in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela between 198...

We describe a two generation family in which two males have the X linked recessive MASA syndrome (mental retardation, aphasia, shuffling gait, and adducted thumbs). A third male in this family died at the age of 15 years from congenital hydrocephalus. In the present family cerebral abnormalities are reported for the first time. Linkage analysis confirms the chromosome localisation at Xq28. A cr...