What is hydrocephaly?

Hydrocephaly is the accumulation of cerebrospinal brain (CSF) in the brain that exerts pressure on the brain and leads to medical complications. This condition is also known as Hydrocephalus and can be congenital or obtained. Treatment requires the services of a neurosurgeon and may include neurologists, physiotherapists and other allied healthcare workers to conduct the patient with treatment and recovery. The prognosis is quite variable, depending on the cause, the extent of hydrocephaltes and other factors. The body can produce too much or may not drain from the brain chambers. Conditions such as brain bleeding can also lead to the development of hydrocephaltes by introducing fluid into the skull and cause pressure that cannot be alleviated. The child can be born with an enlarged head or the head can grow unusually quickly, indicating that pressure forces a young skull to spread to adapt it. The obtained hydrocephalies caused by injuries, tumors, bleeding and other problems do not cause head expansion because the seams of the skull alreadyhave joined.

hydrocephalia people may have symptoms such as headache, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, blurred vision, seizures and coma. The medical imaging study of the brain reveals the accumulation of fluid. An untreated state can lead to death because the pressure on the brain causes the death of brain tissue. Treatment requires a short -circuit insertion for fluid outflow and relief of pressure and solving the basic causes of the problem, often with surgery.

Some people with hydrocephalia recover without any bad effects. Others may develop learning and other neurological disorders due to brain damage. Participation in physical and ergotherapy can help these patients develop skills to compensate for brain damage. In some remarkable case studies, the fluid has accumulated over time so gradually that the hydrocephalia was not identified and the brain had time to adapt to pressure. BrainIt is a remarkably resistant organ and in the case of one French patient there was so much fluid that the brain was reduced to a thin layer of functional tissue inside the skull, but the patient lived a perfectly ordinary life.