Open AccessCauses, classification, diagnostics and treatment of hydrocephalus
Author(s) -
Vjeran Saratlić,
Vesna Ivaništević
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
biomedicinska istraživanja
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1986-8537
pISSN - 1986-8529
DOI - 10.7251/bii1902202s
Subject(s) - hydrocephalus , obstructive hydrocephalus , medicine , neurosurgery , magnetic resonance imaging , cerebrospinal fluid , communicating hydrocephalus , intracranial pressure , computed tomography , neuroradiology , radiology , neurology , psychiatry
Hydrocephalus is a hydrodynamic disorder of the cerebrospinal cortex causing an enlargement of the ventricular system and increased pressure around the brain. Hydrocephalus can be divided into congenital and acquired, and, based on occurrence mechanism, into communicative (non-obstructive) and non-communicative (obstructive which can be congenital and acquired). There is also normal-pressure hydrocephalus, hydrocephalus ex vacuo, and external hydrocephalus in newborns. In newborns and infants, the main diagnosis method is the head ultrasound, through fontanels. After fontanel closure, diagnosis is established by means of magnetic resonance imaging (MR) and computed tomography (CT). Significant domination of obstructive hydrocephalus over the other types of it has been established in a sample of patients with hydrocephalus treated at Department of Neurosurgery of the Clinical Center of Banja Luka in a two-year period.