CereVasc has reported positive initial results in a pilot study of its eShunt System implant in treating elderly patients ...

Boston-based CereVasc designed eShunt for treating normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH). This study evaluates the technology ...

2005). Produced at a rate of 20 ml per hour by the choroid plexus, CSF is located in all four ventricles. Fluid flows from the two lateral ventricles via the foramen of Monro into the third ...

Management of INPH is best accomplished by using a valve-regulating shunting system, which is designed to prevent both under-and overdrainage of CSF. A flow-limiting valve operates by limiting CSF ...

The cause of congenital hydrocephalus is the blockage in the passage of CSF. A child may be born with a blockage in the pathway that allows fluids in the brain to flow normally. But if it has ...

Dr Edwin Mogere, a neurosurgeon at the Aga Khan University Hospital explains: “Although hydrocephalus is known as ‘water-in-the brain’, the ‘water’ is actually cerebrospinal fluid (CSF ...

Rhaeos moved into Fulton Labs in January, effectively moving its headquarters from Evanston to Chicago. The company employs 17 people, most of whom work out of the Fulton Labs office — the others are ...

Children suffering from hydrocephalus, the abnormal accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in the brain, should be careful when using Apple’s popular tablet, the iPad 2: if held within 2 inches of ...