CereVasc announced today that it received FDA breakthrough device designation for its investigational eShunt system.

Some people need to have shunts implanted to regularly drain CSF and keep their pressure controlled as well. Medications can be helpful in the treatment of a CSF leak. If an infection develops ...

the abnormal accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in the brain, should be careful when using Apple’s popular tablet, the iPad 2: if held within 2 inches of the magnetically programmable shunt ...

Albany Medical Center is participating in a clinical trial of the first minimally invasive option to treat normal pressure ...

A shunt is a hollow tube surgically placed in the brain — or occasionally in the spine — to help drain cerebrospinal fluid and redirect it to another location in the body where it can be ...

It makes use of the Self-Cleaning Shunt, a robotic system designed as the ventricular catheter portion of a Cerebrospinal Fluid shunt system and is mainly used for the treatment of hydrocephalus ...

The surgical options include optic nerve sheath fenestration (ONSF) and CSF diversion procedures ... of complication related to the placement of shunts for IIH, including shunt failure, and ...

In addition, the use of advanced programmable valves helps neurosurgeons to externally adjust valve pressure used in shunts during the treatment. Hydrocephalus is a neurological disorder caused due to ...