A French man experienced mild leg weakness, leading doctors to discover a rare case of chronic hydrocephalus. Despite extreme brain shrinkage, he lived a normal life, highlighting remarkable brain ...

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed records of 55 patients diagnosed with idiopathic NPH (INPH) and treated with CSF shunts, all of whom were followed for more than 3 years after the original shunt ...

For 60 years, the only treatment for NPH has been a ventricular peritoneal (VP) shunt, an invasive procedure requiring a hole drilled in the skull to drain excess fluid. VCU Health is now testing ...

An implanted medical device (programmable shunt), skull defect (missing bone with no replacement), or bullet fragment. Optune Gio has not been tested in people with implanted electronic devices, which ...

Not only that, the couple had a trophy of their own, the skull of a green sea turtle, and it was with them aboard that very plane. The passengers in the row ahead were sure to have listened with ...

Police said Afan allegedly struck Latheef on the head with a hammer more than 20 times, literally shattering his skull. Latheef's body was found on a chair in the drawing room. A neighbour ...

The skull dates back to the Paleogene Period, a time that followed the extinction of the dinosaurs and saw the rapid diversification of many life forms, including mammals. Hyaenodonts were the ...

Hydrocephalus is a condition in which excess fluid builds up in the brain, increasing pressure inside the skull. In this child ... had also spread along his VP shunt (ventriculoperitoneal shunt ...

He had a procedure, “cerebral shunt surgery,” where a hole was drilled into his skull to access the part of the brain that produces brain fluid and a shunt/tube was placed robotically to drain ...

He had a procedure, “cerebral shunt surgery,” where a hole was drilled into his skull to access the part of the brain that produces brain fluid and a shunt/tube was placed robotically to drain ...

As a result, his skull was also found to have enlarged. Looking back at his medical history, at the age of six months, he'd undergone a ventriculoatrial shunt due to an unknown cause.

A newly-described fossil skull has given paleontologists their best look yet at a hyaenodont with a meat-cleaving bite. Found in the 30 million-year-old rock of Egypt’s Fayum Basin, the ...