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

Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (INPH ... which is accomplished by implanting a shunt to drain CSF from either the intracranial ventricular system or the lumbar subarachnoid space ...

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

The current treatment for NPH is shunt surgery. The disease mechanisms of NPH remain unclear, and its genetics have been studied only in a limited context. However, the idiopathic form of NPH has ...

This causes pressure on the brain. 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 ...

After a neurological assessment, a computed tomography (CT) scan, and withdrawal of 50 ml of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) via lumbar puncture, he was diagnosed with NPH. The clinical findings ...