Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Hydrocephalus which clinical performance?

Clinical see is not consistent with, Pathological changes with the age, the severity of pathology, the length of the course. More fetal congenital hydrocephalus fetal death, birth after hydrocephalus may arise at any age, the majority of the DH after six months there. The age of patients with cranial small slit not joint, head easily expanded, it intracranial hypertension symptoms less.
Hydrocephalus is mainly expressed in babies born after a few weeks or months after the skull fast, was increased. Normal babies in the first six months of head circumference increase the monthly 1.2-1.3 cm, the disease is her 2-3 times a round head, the Department of protrusion of the first abnormal increase, the former expand uplift, cranial slit Isolation, skull thinning, and even transparent,there will be "broken pots Sound" (Maceen) levy. The amount of the temporal show the vein, under eyeball rotation, often exposed on the sclera (sunset levy). Infant mental illness languish, the head can not be lifted, can be associated with serious brain dysfunction, expressed as epilepsy, visual and olfactory obstacles, nystagmus and strabismus, physical and learning disabilities, such as paralysis. As a baby skull compensatory increases, therefore, headache, vomiting and papilledema are not obvious.

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