Treatment usually involves surgical placement of shunts to divert fluid away, but this procedure often leads to complications, infections, and multiple re-treatments.

A 27-year-old man was given a new lease of life after doctors at Mbagathi Hospital successfully performed a delicate brain surgery, marking a ...

You get a brain scan, and you find, in fact, that the patient has normal pressure hydrocepsalus, potentially treatable. Sometimes patients come in with questionable Parkinson's disease.

Tucson residents Jackie Boorse and Heather Thrall Roscoe call themselves "shunt sisters" for the brain shunts they each have to manage a rare neurological disorder. Boorse, 28, and Thrall Roscoe ...

NPH is a condition that happens when cerebrospinal fluid builds up inside the skull and presses on the brain. This condition is most likely to occur in people over age 65. Treating this condition ...

He needed surgery to insert a brain shunt to help drain that extra fluid. At four weeks old, Brooks was transferred to Woman’s Hospital and their NICU for the surgery.