Hypertensive-hydrocephalic syndrome isa disease that is characterized by the accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain, more precisely, in its ventricles and under the membranes, which results in increased intracranial pressure. This disease is caused by the partial impossibility of outflow of liquor.
Hypertensive-hydrocephalic syndrome: symptoms
Signs of hypertension-hydrocephalic syndrome are:
Often hypertensive-hydrocephalic syndromeare found in infants. And also often the doctors put this diagnosis wrong, focusing on the signs that may not be relevant to this disease.
Symptoms of this syndrome in infants are:
Hypertensive hydrocephalic syndrome: causes
This syndrome can appear in a newborndue to mothers' infections during pregnancy, birth injuries, brain formation defects. Often, this syndrome manifests itself in premature infants.
In children, the disease may appear due tocomplications after the infection. Symptoms of the disease in children are: irritability, aggressiveness, restlessness, vomiting, intolerable headaches, drowsiness, lethargy, visual disturbances, fixed position of the head.
In adults, the syndrome can appear after the receipt of craniocerebral injuries, due to infections, including neuroinfections.
Hypertensive hydrocephalic syndrome: treatment
In order to correctly diagnose the disease,it is necessary to pass an echoencephologogram, a rheoencephalogram, an electroencephalogram, a computer tomography. A neurologist, a neurosurgeon, an ophthalmologist, a psychiatrist must be examined.
Treatment depends on the root cause of this disease. If it is an infection, measures are taken to eliminate it, if trauma is the fault, appropriate therapy is carried out.
If the diagnosis is confirmed, the patient is requiredimmediate hospitalization. Medicamentous treatment involves the use of funds aimed at increasing the outflow of cerebrospinal fluid and reducing the production of cerebrospinal fluid. If the drug treatment did not produce tangible results, then surgical intervention can be applied. Surgical removal removes the formation, interfering with a full outflow of liquor. In most cases, the patient is shunted, which is the introduction of the shunt into the ventricular area, through which the outflow of excess fluid is carried out.
Hypertensive-hydrocephalic syndrome: consequences
This disease can have the most seriouseffects. If medical measures are not taken on time, the syndrome can degenerate into a chronic illness that is fraught with complete blindness, developmental delay, paralysis, coma, dementia. If the measures are not taken in time, the consequences of this syndrome can be the saddest, often with a fatal outcome.
Prevention
To prevent this syndrome, it should not beTo admit infectious diseases in the period of expectation of the child, to use with care medicamentous means during pregnancy. A future mother needs to undergo ultrasound during pregnancy and make an ultrasound to a child after birth. Monthly tracking of the change in size and shape of the head.
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