Sentences with phrase «drain brain fluid»

These spaces surround the blood vessels that drain brain fluid and communicate with the lymph system; widening of these VR spaces is seen in the elderly but rarely in the young.

«The last evangelists who came here killed a man and drained his brain fluid,» he said.

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Giffords was making «lightning speed» progress for a brain injury and had the drain for brain fluid removed from her head, her doctors said last week.

After surgery your doctor will advise on an ongoing treatment plant which may include having a shunt fitted to drain excess fluid from the brain and physio.

My son had a brain bleed and if we had not had him circumcised and we went home several days later our son would not have woken up from either a nap or the night because the bleeding was blocking the passage where spinal fluid drains from the brain.

Placing a shunt or tube in the ventricles — The placement of a shunt in the brain allows our team to drain the spinal fluid that has built up in the ventricles and direct it to other parts of the body, alleviating the enlarged ventricles that have caused the condition.

«We literally watched people's brains drain fluid into these vessels,» said Daniel S. Reich, M.D., Ph.D., senior investigator at the NIH's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and the senior author of the study published online in eLife.

Now we may finally see that, like other organs in the body, brain fluid can drain out through the lymphatic system,» said Dr. Reich.

Compared with a healthy human fetus (left), a fetus with hydrocephalus can not drain the fluid it needs to from its brain.

Spina bifida is different: It can leave children unable to walk and control bowel and bladder function, and in need of shunts to drain fluid from the brain, but it's less often life - threatening.

The guidelines provide parameters regarding when clinicians should consider the possibility of ventriculitis (inflammation of the ventricles in the brain) or meningitis (inflammation of the lining of the brain or spinal cord) in patients who have cerebrospinal fluid shunts and drains (devices placed in the brain to relieve pressure due to fluid buildup), intrathecal drug pumps (for administration of pain medicine or other drugs into the spinal canal), deep brain stimulation hardware (medical devices that provide electrostimulation in the brain to treat Parkinson's disease or other neurological symptoms) or who have undergone neurosurgery or suffered from head trauma.

Recent research has even discovered an element of the lymphatic system devoted to draining interstitial fluid from in and around the brain, thereby exhibiting a critical function in alleviating pressure in the CNS.

Signs of disseminated Valley Fever can include: - lameness or swelling of limbs - back or neck pain, with or without weakness / paralysis - seizures and other manifestations of brain swelling - soft abscess - like swelling under the skin - swollen lymph nodes under the chin, in front of the shoulder blades, or behind the stifles - non-healing skin ulcerations or draining tracts that ooze fluid - eye inflammation with pain or cloudiness - unexpected heart failure in a young dog - swollen testicles

Just as in other toy breeds, the Chihuahua is prone to swelling on the brain because the cerebrospinal fluid can not drain properly from the skull.

A valve is located on this catheter that runs from their brain to their abdomen, which can then open to allow excess pressure build up in their brain to be relived through the draining of this fluid into their abdomen.

This is a procedure in which our surgeons drain fluid from the ventricular system in your pet's brain.

A shunt was placed to drain fluids from the brain.

Doctors attempted to drain excess fluid from his brain and conducted a test on Feb. 21 to determine if it was successful.

CSF leaks results when the cerebral sack around the brain and spinal cord tears open and the fluids drain out.