Aqueductal CSF stroke volume measurements may drive management of shunted idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus patients.

ABSTRACT: CSF shunting with adjustable valve is the treatment of idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus. The opening pressure valve setting is left to the neurosurgeon's experience. Aqueductal CSF stroke volume by phase-contrast magnetic resonance measures the CSF passing through the Sylvian aqueduct and it changes with intracranial hydrodynamics. We sought to identify a window of stroke volume differences associated with the best clinical outcome and lowest rate of complications. The records of 69 patients were reviewed. At every clinical check, stroke volume, opening pressure valve, clinical outcome, and CSF overdrainage were analyzed. The correlation between stroke volume differences and negative outcome was also analyzed. The median follow-up was 2.3 years (range 0.3-10.4 years). The odds of n

SUBMITTER: Scollato A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8007697 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature