Other possible causes include depression; sleep disturbances; medication side effects; hearing and vision loss; deficiencies in nutrients such as vitamin B12, folic acid, and thiamine; long-term alcohol misuse; normal pressure hydrocephalus; chronic infections such as neurosyphilis or HIV/AIDS; brain ...
Mass lesion:Older people are at higher risk for a brain tumor (i.e., brain cancer). The hydrocephalus from a growing tumor can compress the brain and brain system. This compression results in brain damage and death. More than 50% of individuals with high-grade gliomas experience headache.3A...
Multi-infarct Dementia(15-20% ofDementiacases) Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus Head Trauma Mass lesions (Intracranial Tumor) Drug toxicity or metabolic disturbance Anticholinergic Medications Vitamin B12 Deficiency Hypothyroidism Alcohol-relatedDementia Wernnicke's Encephalopathy ...
Dementia occurs most commonly in elderly people; it used to be called senility and/or senile dementia, and was considered a normal part of aging. Affected people were labeled as demented. The term "senile dementia" is infrequently used in the current medical literature and has been replaced by...
damage. Craniectomy is not often used to treat subdural hematoma. Althoughthey are often lifesaving, thesedecompression surgeriesstill carry risks. Some potential complications include blood clots, water on the brain (hydrocephalus), and an increased risk of cranial bleeding or infection, such as ...
What can cause loss of fine motor skills in the hands? How does hydrocephalus cause cerebral palsy? Does myasthenia gravis cause death? What causes a diabetic coma? What is a genetic neurodegenerative disease? What is the most common cause of congenital heart disease? What neurological disease ca...
hydrocephalus, sepsis, intestinal perforation, myocarditis, abscesses, anaortic aneurysm, nephritis, reactivearthritis, osteomyelitis (especially in patients withsickle cell disease), and a persistent carrier state. There are many other problems that can occur with most organ systems in the body. Early...
Readmission rates differed between the diagnosis groups, with 9.19% in neoplasm, 8.26% in hydrocephalus, 5.76% in vascular, 6.13% after trauma and 8.05% in the functional group. A number of causes were considered to be preventable, such as wound healing disorders, seizures or social reasons. ...
of hLRG increases with age and is significantly higher in patients with Parkinson’s disease with dementia (PDD) and progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) than in healthy elderly people, idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) patients, and individuals with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Tg ...
Describe Alzheimer's disease. What is the main cause of Alzheimer's? Describe how the appearance of the image of the letters "a" and "k" changes when the naked eye image is compared to the ocular image. What is the cause (etiology) of hydrocephalus? What...