A new study reported that using shunt tubing impregnated with two common antibiotics is effective in preventing infection after brain surgery to relieve hydrocephalus. This simple but highly effective ...

Dr. Michael A. Williams, professor of neurology and neurological surgery at the University of Washington School of Medicine and a hydrocephalus experts, holds an example of a valve for a brain shunt ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am an 84-year-old woman who was recently diagnosed with hydrocephalus after an MRI scan. I understand that there isn’t any treatment besides a shunt. Do you have any recommendations?

Hydrocephalus is an excess of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in the brain’s ventricles. Surgery is the first-line and most effective treatment. The two primary surgeries are the Ventriculoperitoneal (VP) ...

In order to write such a column, I would ask any readers, friends, or acquaintances of readers, who have had an NPH shunt ...

July 5, 2011 — A standardized protocol for shunt surgery in children with hydrocephalus reduces the risk for cerebrospinal fluid shunt infection by 36%, according to a new study. The analysis suggests ...

A company founded by two neurosurgeons at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, MA is trying to uncomplicate a complicated brain procedure. Venture Capital investors seem confident in CereVasc's approach to ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (DECEMBER 23, 2014). Researchers conducted a prospective randomized controlled clinical trial at Bern University Hospital in Switzerland to compare a laparoscopic procedure with a ...