Adult chronic hydrocephalus
HCA is a relatively frequent process that affects people
greater
and it is characterized by a defect in the reabsorption of the cerebrospinal fluid, which causes an increase in the ventricular system.
The patient begins with imbalance at
walk
, followed by
incontinence
urinary and finally deterioration
cognitive
. It enters the differential diagnosis of dementias and its treatment is a shunt of fluid between the brain and the peritoneum, which produces the
improvement
in more than
70%
from the patients.
