|
KMID : 0359720180360010022
|
|
Journal of the Korean Neurological Association
2018 Volume.36 No. 1 p.22 ~ p.26
|
|
|
Four-and-a-half-year Follow-up of Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus Patient Treated with a Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt
|
|
Kwon Jung-A
Kang Kyung-Hun
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
|
A 68-year-old man presented with progressive impairment of gait, balance, and memory. He exhibited a slow and unstable gait. Formal neuropsychological evaluation showed a deficit in visuospatial function and memory with frontal dysfunctions. He was diagnosed as idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus with an Evans' ratio of 0.35. Four-and-a-half years after ventriculoperitoneal shunt placement, he showed a marked improvement in gait, as well as in visuospatial and frontal lobe functions. He benefited from shunt surgery for at least four-and-a-half years.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
Hydrocephalus, Cognitive dysfunction, Ventriculoperitoneal shunt
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
  
|