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EVALUATION OF SHUNT TREATMENT IN HYDROCEPHALUS WITH MYELOMENINGOCELE: SOME FACTORS RELATIING TO MENTAL PROGNOSIS Noriaki Kojima 1 , Norihiko Tamaki 1 , Satoshi Matsumoto 1 1Department of Neurosurgery, Kobe University, School of Medicine pp.1181-1187
Published Date 1988/12/1
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.1406206227
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From 1971 to 1986, the authors experienced 64 patients of myelomeningocele. Sixty out of 64 cases (94%) had both myelomeningocele and hydrocephalus. A retrospective analysis about these hydrocephalic patients was conducted on various factors relating to intelligence. Forty-nine cases received cerebrospinal fluid diversion opera-tion within 2 years of life, while 6 cases had ventriculo-peritoneal shunt after 7 years of age and 5 cases had no surgical treatment for hydro-cephalus. Statistically the following factors were significantly related to low intelligence : 1) ven-triculitis suffered within two months of life : 2) association of symptomatic Arnold-Chiari malfor-mation, and 3) myelodysplasia at or above the L2 level. However, there was no statistically signifi-cant relationship between mental prognosis and age at initial shunt, degree of ventricular dilatation before and after shunt, numbers of shunt revision, epilepsy, or subdural hematoma after shunt. These findings suggest that hydrocephalic patients with myelomeningocele will be expected to have better mental prognosis if the hydrocephalus is well controlled by shunting and if they do not have other severe malformations of the central nervous system.


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