ALLMedicine™ Congenital Hydrocephalus Center

Mar 10th, 2023 - A 30-year-old man with recurrent headaches and seizure-like activity and a 26-year-old woman with worsening headaches were admitted to the hospital. Both had ventriculoperitoneal shunts and history of several shunt revisions for congenital hydroce...

Mar 2nd, 2023 - Congenital hydrocephalus is characterized by ventriculomegaly, defined as a dilatation of cerebral ventricles, and thought to be due to impaired cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) homeostasis. Primary congenital hydrocephalus is a subset of cases with pren...

Feb 22nd, 2023 - Congenital hydrocephalus after peripartum infection usually presents early in life; however, we present a 92-year-old female patient with newly diagnosed hydrocephalus secondary to peripartum infection. Intracranial imaging showed ventriculomegaly...

Feb 22nd, 2023 - Congenital hydrocephalus is a common condition caused by the accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid in the ventricular system. Four major genes are currently known to be causally involved in hydrocephalus, either isolated or as a common clinical feat...

Feb 15th, 2023 - Hydrocephalus is the most common brain disorder in children and is more common in low- and middle-income countries. Research output on hydrocephalus remains sparse and of lower quality in low- and middle-income countries compared with high-income ...

Dec 5th, 2022 - This protocol is designed to enable access to intravenous infusions of banked autologous (a person's own) or sibling umbilical cord blood (CB) for children with various brain disorders. Children with cerebral palsy, congenital hydrocephalus, aprax...

Results Our cohort consisted of 1,448,703 women who contributed 1,780,156 pregnancies: 1,185,013 (81.8%) of these women contributed 1 pregnancy to our study cohort, 210,721 (14.5%) women contributed 2 pregnancies, and 52,969 (3.7%) contributed mor...