Word: hydrocephalus
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...cancers as well as neurological and reproductive disorders. Bala, a 24-year-old day laborer, worked for two months in the fields during the spraying season four years ago. Not long after, her second child, a boy, was born with a neurological disorder and has recently been diagnosed with hydrocephalus. "His treatment is so expensive that we have had to borrow large amounts of money... I know he won't survive" she says. Surinder Singh, the executive director of the rural NGO Kheti Virasat, says, "Punjab is paying with its life for a dubious promise of prosperity...
...things are going badly. Sherwin Nuland is a celebrity doctor; he was a surgeon for 30 years, teaches surgery and gastroenterology at Yale and is author of How We Die, which won a National Book Award. Last fall his daughter, 21, faced a crisis. She had been born with hydrocephalus--fluid on the brain. A shunt was put in, which worked fine for 21 years until it closed down. "She needed a total of four operations to get this straightened out," Nuland says. The experience tested his self-control. "It helped that I knew what [her doctors] were going through...
...brain is not enclosed in the skull,” she said. Spina bifida, or the failure of spinal cord closure, is a more common result of NTDs than anencephaly, according to Suarez. “Among those who survive childhood [spina bifida], a majority are affected by hydrocephalus, paralysis, and lack of bowel and bladder control,” Missmer said. But causes of NTDs remain unclear. “In 1971, Dr. Brian McMahon reported an outbreak of NTDs that occurred in the 1930s in New England that has still not been explained,” Missmer said...
...diagnosis: hydrocephalus. Doctors cut into his skull on Jan. 11, 2001. The operation was a success, draining the fluid that had collected on his brain. Subsequent MRIs have given Zappala a spotless bill of health...
RELEASE VALVE A 50-year-old therapy for hydrocephalus--water on the brain--is showing new promise as a treatment for Alzheimer's. Surgeons implanted a catheter behind the ear of a dozen patients to drain fluid from the brain. The goal was to improve the flow of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain and reduce the buildup of neurotoxic proteins. Over a year, patients with shunts maintained mental function better than those in an untreated control group. Larger studies are under...