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Studies on the pathogenesis of normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) have been of necessity, limited to changes in the physical properties of the brains of patients whose cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) circulation is impaired, and whose symptoms reflect a progressive ventriculomegaly rather than an increased intraventricular pressure. The diagnosis of NPH is applied to patients with cerebral dysfunction, ataxia, enlarged cerebral ventricles, and normal spinal fluid pressure with no visible obstruction of the ventricular system. Considerable attention has been focused on devising means of distinguishing patients for whom the clinical picture can be reversed by shunting cerebrospinal fluid to another body cavity. The prognosis is good for patients identified as those who can benefit from the shunting procedure, in contrast to those with primary cerebral atrophy.
These studies were supported by USPHS Grant NS 06599.
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Hochwald, G.M. (1975). Co-chairman’s Introduction. In: Lundberg, N., Pontén, U., Brock, M. (eds) Intracranial Pressure II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66086-3_24
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