Erschienen in:
01.03.2012 | Correspondence
Unusual Patient with Multiple Sclerosis and Shunt-Responsive Normal-Pressure Hydrocephalus
verfasst von:
O. Algin, MD, O. Taskapilioglu, MD, B. Hakyemez, MD, M. Parlak, MD
Erschienen in:
Clinical Neuroradiology
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Ausgabe 1/2012
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Excerpt
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, disabling inflammatory and demyelinating disease of the central nervous system (CNS) and ventriculomegaly secondary to white matter (WM) atrophy may be seen in long-standing MS cases [
1,
2]. To the best of knowledge of the authors a patient with normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) and MS has not been reported in the literature. This article reports the case of an MS patient with NPH-like magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings in routine and phase contrast MRI (PC-MRI) and resolution of symptoms attributable to NPH after shunt placement. The aim of the report is to emphasize the possible relationship between NPH and MS. …