Normal pressure hydrocephalus

INPH Guidelines Study Group. Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus. Neurosurgery. 2005;57(Suppl 3):S2-1-S2-52.Full text

Halperin JJ, Kurlan R, Schwalb JM, et al. Practice guideline: Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus: Response to shunting and predictors of response: Report of the Guideline Development, Dissemination, and Implementation Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology. Neurology. 2015 Dec 8;85(23):2063-71.Full text  Abstract

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30. Andrén K, Wikkelsø C, Hellström P, et al. Early shunt surgery improves survival in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus. Eur J Neurol. 2021 Apr;28(4):1153-59.Full text  Abstract

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32. Pujari S, Kharkar S, Metellus P, et al. Normal pressure hydrocephalus: long-term outcome after shunt surgery. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2008 Nov;79(11):1282-6. Abstract

33. Sæhle T, Farahmand D, Eide PK, et al. A randomized controlled dual-center trial on shunt complications in idiopathic normal-pressure hydrocephalus treated with gradually reduced or "fixed" pressure valve settings. J Neurosurg. 2014 Nov;121(5):1257-63 Abstract

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36. Ziebell M, Wetterslev J, Tisell M, et al. Flow-regulated versus differential pressure-regulated shunt valves for adult patients with normal pressure hydrocephalus. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2013 May 31;(5):CD009706.Full text  Abstract

37. Pinto FC, Saad F, Oliveira MF, et al. Role of endoscopic third ventriculostomy and ventriculoperitoneal shunt in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus: preliminary results of a randomized clinical trial. Neurosurgery. 2013 May;72(5):845-53 Abstract

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40. Sundström N, Lagebrant M, Eklund A, et al. Subdural hematomas in 1846 patients with shunted idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus: treatment and long-term survival. J Neurosurg. 2017 Oct 27;129(3):797-804. Abstract

41. Feletti A, d'Avella D, Wikkelsø C, et al. Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Complications in the European Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus Multicenter Study. Oper Neurosurg (Hagerstown). 2019 Jul 1;17(1):97-102. Abstract