The pathophysiological changes of progressive neonatal hydrocephalus include: increased intracranial volume of cerebrospinal fluid, progressive dilatation of cerebral ventricles, decreased intracranial compliance, raised intracranial pressure, alteration of cerebral circulation and subsequent secondary brain tissue damage (decreased cerebral blood flow, hypoperfusion, ischaemia), alteration of ...

Cerebral ventricle size was measured in one hundred normal people, age 10 to 50 years. The measurements were obtained from computed tomographic (CT) scan examinations, using the Huckman (1975) method. Normal ventricles were significantly bigger at age 45 than at age 15. These normals were compared to groups of patients with pseudotumor cerebri, water intoxication and cerebral edema, and cerebra...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the efficacy of endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV) for infantile hydrocephalus. METHODS Retrospectively reviewed the 17 infantile hydrocephalus cases who were treated with ETV between July 2009 and June 2013. The study includes 17 patients (4 Han and 13 Hui) between the ages of 51 and 337 days. Five cases with encephalitis history and 2 cases with cerebral hemorrh...

Insulin on intravenous administration in dogs caused a rise in blood cholesterol level. This may be due to its direct action on liver or other peripheral structures. On the other hand, insulin administered into the lateral cerebral ventricles in normal as well as in spinal and vagotomized dogs resulted in a lowering of blood cholesterol. In cross circulation studies insulin administered into la...

Four cases of cerebral Serratia infection in preterm infants were diagnosed with the aid of real-time sector sonography. Three cases had brain abscesses and one case had ventriculitis. In two cases brain abscesses had ruptured into the ventricles. Serratia brain abscess was common in our series of brain abscesses. Sonographic patterns of cerebritis, abscess formation, and ventriculitis correlat...