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?

An experimental surgical approach for treating Alzheimer's disease produced some encouraging -- but very preliminary -- results in the first few patients, doctors reported Monday. Surgeons are testing ...

Idiopathic normal-pressure hydrocephalus is a neurologic disorder characterized by impaired gait, balance, cognition, and bladder control in older adults. The disorder is treated with shunt surgery, ...

The Norwood procedure with a modified Blalock–Taussig (MBT) shunt, the first palliative stage for single-ventricle lesions with systemic outflow obstruction, is associated with high mortality. The ...

A ventriculoperitoneal shunt is a medical device that doctors use to treat a brain condition called hydrocephalus. Hydrocephalus is a condition that causes fluid to build up on the brain, which ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Mark Hamilton, professor of neurosurgery at Cummings School of Medicine, holds the shunt used to help patient Jill Knaus. They ...

Captured from: Vardi GM. InterShunt: the EASE-HF results. Presented at: TVT 2023. June 8, 2023. Phoenix, AZ. PHOENIX, AZ—A no-implant interatrial shunt (PAS-C; InterShunt Technologies) delivered ...