Evaluation of Patients With Cognitive Impairment Due to Suspected Idiopathic Normal-Pressure Hydrocephalus at Medical Centers for Dementia: A Nationwide Hospital-Based Survey in Japan.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Treatment of idiopathic normal-pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) requires collaboration between dementia specialists and neurosurgeons. The role of dementia specialists is to differentiate patients with iNPH from patients with other dementia diseases and to determine if other dementia diseases are comorbid with iNPH. We conducted a nationwide hospital-based questionnaire survey on iNPH in medical centers for dementia (MCDs).

Methods

We developed a questionnaire to assess how physicians in MCDs evaluate and treat patients with cognitive impairment due to suspected iNPH and the difficulties these physicians experience in the evaluation and treatment of patients. The questionnaire was sent to all 456 MCDs in Japan.

Results

Questionnaires from 279 MCDs were returned

SUBMITTER: Kazui H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9184737 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature