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Concept

Shunt (medical)

Publications associées (5)

Neural circuits of idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus: A perspective review of brain connectivity and symptoms meta-analysis

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Alessandra Griffa

Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) is a prevalent reversible neurological disorder characterized by impaired locomotion, cognition and urinary control with ventriculomegaly. Symptoms can be relieved with cerebrospinal fluid drainage, which mak ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

Non-invasive adjustable drainage equipment

Nikolaos Stergiopoulos

The equipment disclosed by the invention comprises at least one inlet tube (1) which serves as a drainage fluid passage, and the tube (1) is connected to a cavity (2), and the cavity (2) comprises rotating devices (4, 5) for regulating a flow velocity in t ...

2016

Tissue engineering for prenatal applications

Anna-Sofia Johanna Kiveliö

Fetal therapies have become available for a restricted number of life-threatening clinical conditions. Harnessing tissue engineering for prenatal applications has not been widely pursued even though isolating cells from fetal and extraembryonic tissues has ...

EPFL2015

Morphology-driven automatic segmentation of MR images of the neonatal brain

François Lazeyras, Michel Kocher

The segmentation of MR images of the neonatal brain is an essential step in the study and evaluation of infant brain development. State-of-the-art methods for adult brain MRI segmentation are not applicable to the neonatal brain, due to large differences i ...

Elsevier Science Bv2012

Optimization of the treatment of hydrocephalus by the non-invasive measurement of the intra-cranial pressure

Alec Ginggen

This thesis work aims to optimize the treatment of hydrocephalus. It consists of two distinct objectives: the optimization of the diagnosis of patients implanted with a shunt system for the derivation of cerebro-spinal fluid (CSF) and the optimization of t ...

EPFL2007