Resources

Below, you’ll find some helpful resources about normal pressure hydrocephalus and dementia.

Government health information

NHS England: Dementia as a priority

UK government dementia profile: data relating to people with dementia, such as prevalence and diagnostics, risk factors, use of hospital services and mortality.

UK Prime Minister’s challenge on dementia 2020

Clinical guidelines

‘The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has issued full guidance to the NHS in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland on the lumbar infusion test for the investigation of normal pressure hydrocephalus.’

View interventional procedures guidance [IPG263]

Academic publications

Hebb A, Cusimano M. Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus: A Systematic Review of Diagnosis and Outcome. (2001) Neurosurgery 49:1166–1186

Savolinen S, et al (1999) Prevalence of Alzheimer’s Disease in Patients Investigated for Presumed Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus: A Clinical and Neuropathological Study. Acta Neurochirurgica 141:849–853

Czosnyka, Z. at al. (2005). Clinical testing of CSF circulation in hydrocephalus. Acta Neurochirurgica, Supplementum, c(95), 247–251.

Baroncini, M. et al (2018). Ventriculomegaly in the Elderly: Who Needs a Shunt? A MRI Study on 90 Patients. Acta Neurochir Suppl., 126, 221–228

Lokossou A, et al. (2018) ICP Monitoring and Phase-Contrast MRI to Investigate Intracranial Compliance. Acta Neurochir Suppl.;126:247–253

Lalou A et al (2020). Shunt infusion studies: impact on patient outcome, including health economics. Acta Neurochir (Wien). 162(5):1019-1031

Fernández-Méndez R at al (2020). Improvement of the Efficiency and Completeness of Neuro-Oncology Patient Referrals to a Tertiary Center Through the Implementation of an Electronic Referral System: Retrospective Cohort Study. J Med Internet Res. 22(3): e1500219.

Wimo A et al. (2011) The Economic Impact of Dementia in Europe in 2008-cost Estimates From the Eurocode Project. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry; 26: 825–832.

Software

All the software produced by the project are available on the github repository upon request. Please contact: [email protected]

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