Ludwig, H. C.; Bock, H. C.; Gärtner, J.; Schiller, S.; Frahm, J.; Dreha-Kulaczewski, S. Hydrocephalus Revisited: New Insights into Dynamics of Neurofluids on Macro- and Microscales. Neuropediatrics, 2021, 52, 233–241. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1731981.
Ludwig, H. C.; Bock, H. C.; Gärtner, J.; Schiller, S.; Frahm, J.; Dreha-Kulaczewski, S. Hydrocephalus Revisited: New Insights into Dynamics of Neurofluids on Macro- and Microscales. Neuropediatrics, 2021, 52, 233–241. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1731981.
Ludwig, H. C.; Bock, H. C.; Gärtner, J.; Schiller, S.; Frahm, J.; Dreha-Kulaczewski, S. Hydrocephalus Revisited: New Insights into Dynamics of Neurofluids on Macro- and Microscales. Neuropediatrics, 2021, 52, 233–241. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1731981.
Ludwig, H. C.; Bock, H. C.; Gärtner, J.; Schiller, S.; Frahm, J.; Dreha-Kulaczewski, S. Hydrocephalus Revisited: New Insights into Dynamics of Neurofluids on Macro- and Microscales. Neuropediatrics, 2021, 52, 233–241. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1731981.
Abstract
New experimental and clinical findings question the historic view of hydrocephalus and its 100-year-old classification. In particular, real-time MRI evaluation of CSF flow and detailed insights into brain water regulation on the molecular scale indicate the existence of at least three main mechanisms that determine the dynamics of neurofluids. (i) Inspiration is a major driving force (ii) Adequate filling of brain ventricles by balanced cerebrospinal fluid upsurge is sensed by cilia (iii) The perivascular glial network connects the ependymal surface to the pericapillary Virchow-Robin spaces. Hitherto, these aspects have not been considered a common physiologic framework improving knowledge and therapy for severe disorders of normal-pressure and post-haemorrhagic hydrocephalus, spontaneous intracranial hypotension and spaceflight disease.
Medicine and Pharmacology, Neuroscience and Neurology
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