Sentences with phrase «from hydrocephalus»

The options to reduce this pressure from hydrocephalus in Lexi's brain were medical management (specific drugs to inhibit the overproduction of cerebrospinal fluid and reduce inflammation) or surgery (to safely redirect the excessive fluid).

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Hydrocephalus can be diagnosed at any time in a child's life - from prenatally through childhood and adulthood.

In a final experiment, the group gave the animals a compound that prevented LPA from binding to its receptor on mouse brain cells, right before they were injected with hydrocephalus - inducing LPA.

In theory, a compound like this might be given to premature babies from birth in an effort to prevent hydrocephalus should a brain bleed occur, or to pregnant women whose fetuses are at risk of hydrocephalus because of bleeding.

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

Particularly important in small dome - headed breeds (Pomeranian, chihuahua etc.) would be congenital disease such as hydrocephalus, where abnormal fluid drainage from the brain creates damage.

Causes of seizures from within the brain (structural abnormalities of the brain) include brain tumors, strokes, encephalitis or meningitis, congenital abnormalities (such as hydrocephalus), head trauma, degenerative or storage diseases, infection and other causes.

A dog with hydrocephalus will have many soft spots in the skull because the additional fluid in the cranial cavity keeps the skull plates from fusing.

This is because it's likely this condition may become an ongoing occurrence which is why most (if not all) life insurance companies are going to automatically decline someone from qualifying for a traditional term or whole life insurance police if they first contracted their hydrocephalus as a baby.