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There were no differences on the Vineland Adaptive Behavioral Scale between subjects with spina bifida and those with aqueductal stenosis in autonomy, socialization, and daily living skills. These results suggest that shunted congenital hydrocephalus is not characterized by nonverbal learning disabilities ...
A chart review yielded clinical data.Results Most participants were Caucasian (78%), female (56%: 28 females, 22 males), unemployed (58%), and in supervised living environments (74%). Eighty per cent had a history of hydrocephalus requiring shunt placement. A lumbar LOL was most frequently...
Hydrocephalus is a recognised complication of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-related opportunistic infections. Symptomatic raised cerebrospinal fluid pressure can be treated with ventriculoperitoneal shunt insertion (VPS). In HIV-infected patients however, there is a concern that VPS might be associated...
People living in close quarters (military barracks, dormitories) IV drug users People with shunts in place for hydrocephalus Fungal meningitis is a very serious and rare cause of meningitis. Typically limited to people who have had surgical procedures or have impaired immune systems due to cancerand...
15 Alzheimer disease alone is estimated to cause approximately 60%16 of all dementias, with the other 40% attributed to vascular events, Lewy body disease, frontotemporal dementia, Parkinson disease, Huntington disease, Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, normal pressure hydrocephalus,...
18 Other dementias included mixed dementia,19 frontotemporal dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies, Parkinson's disease with dementia, alcoholic dementia, hydrocephalus dementia, and post-traumatic dementia, according to various globally accepted criteria. Participants who were neither cognitively normal nor ...
Eligible participants were adults with a confirmed diagnosis of SB (that is, occulta, meningocele, myelomeningocele or myeloschisis, with and without associated hydrocephalus).16 Data analysis Group differences in psychological functioning between respondents with ‘high’ versus ‘low’ resilience ...
Eligible participants were adults with a confirmed diagnosis of SB (that is, occulta, meningocele, myelomeningocele or myeloschisis, with and without associated hydrocephalus).16 Data analysis Group differences in psychological functioning between respondents with 'high' versus 'low' resilience scores ...
Petersen’s criteria were used to identify the MCI group, which included patients with an objective memory impairment less than 1.5 SD from the norm in at least one memory test but who were still conducting normal activities of daily living [22]. DAT patients were those who fulfilled the crit...