The Prediction of Shunt Response in Idiopathic Normal-Pressure Hydrocephalus Based on Intracranial Pressure Monitoring and Lumbar Infusion.

Background: Intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring and infusion studies have long been used in the preoperative workup of patients with suspected idiopathic normal-pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH). We have analysed the predictive values of different measures derived from both investigations, emphasising the differences between responders and nonresponders.

Materials And Methods: ICP monitoring and lumbar infusion studies were routinely performed during a 6-year period.

[Endoscopic fenestration as a treatment for asymmetrical hydrocephalus due to obstruction of the foramen of Monro].

Unilateral dilatation of the lateral ventricle is a rare condition. The most common causes are tumors of the lateral ventricles or in the area of the third ventricle, acute or chronic inflammatory gliosis, cysticercosis or congenital atresia of the foramen of Monro. We report a case of asymmetrical dilatation of the lateral ventricle in an adult patient presenting with a raised intracranial pressure syndrome caused by narrowing of the foramen of Monro which was occluded by a thin membrane.

Brain cysticercosis treated with praziquantel. Report of six cases.

Cysticercosis is the most common parasitosis affecting the central nervous system and it is endemic in many countries. Although cysticercosis is nowadays a rare disease in Spain, three of such cases have been treated with Praziquantel at the Hospital "Princesa Sofía" of León and another three at the Hospital General de Galicia of Santiago, and the six of them are reported together. The six patients presented at CT scans cysts located at different levels in the brain parenchyma, subarachnoid space and ventricular system.