Issue Special Issue 1/2009
52nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Research into Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida
Content (55 Articles)
52nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Research into Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida
Hugh Richards
The Casey Holter memorial lecture: genetics and embryology of neural tube defects
Andrew Copp
Intraventricular hemorrhage in premature infants
Barbara Stonestreet
Altered ependyma and leptomeninges in transgenic mice that over express FGF2 and amyloid precursor protein: evidence for early hydrocephalus
Edward Stopa, Miles Miller, Eddie Blay, Paul McMillan, Douglas Coffin, Andrew Baird, John Donahue, Conrad Johanson
Effect of rhHB-EGF on the expression of hydrocephalus-related genes in vitro
Joon W Shim, Andrew Dudley, Michael Klagsbrun, Sandra Smith, Joseph R Madsen
Blood to cerebrospinal fluid barrier in spontaneous hypertension and ventricular dilation
Agustin Castañeyra-Perdomo, Ibrahim González-Marrero, Paloma Fernández-Rodríguez, Juan M Gonzalez-Toledo, Leandro Castañeyra-Ruiz, Maria E Segui, Agustin Castañeyra-Ruiz, Hector de Paz-Carmona, Isabel Hernandez-Garde, Emilia M Carmona-Calero
The altered expression of aquaporin 1 and 4 in choroid plexus of congenital hydrocephalus
Leena Paul, Meenu Madan, Matthias Rammling, Babak Behnam, Jogi V Pattisapu
Comparison of key interhemispheric connections and the posterior commissure in normal and hydrocephalic rat fetuses
Swapna Vaddi, Sajida Rasul, Sarah Cains, Andrew Shepherd, Carys Bannister
Does an osmolarity gradient cause hydrocephalus?
Satish Krishnamurthy, Jie Li, James P (Pat) McAllister
Efficacy of ventricular access devices in the treatment of neonatal intraventricular haemorrhage
David Shooman, Will Dawes, Paul Chumas, Darach Crimmins, Atul Tyagi
Prenatal counseling for myelomeningocele: prognoses, decisions and outcomes
Christopher Goiney, David Shurtleff, Sharon Duguay, Daniel Doherty, Edith Cheng, Theresa Naluai-Cecchini
Can muscle ultrasound density in early life predict motor outcome in spina bifida aperta?
Renate J Verbeek, Johannes H van der Hoeven, Natasha M Maurits, Oebele F Brouwer, Deborah A Sival
VEGF-A is elevated in CSF of pediatric patients undergoing surgery for hydrocephalus
Joseph R Madsen, Joon W Shim, Gani Abazi, Laurel Fleming, Brian Fernholz, Susan Connors, Judah Folkman
Abnormal fractional anisotropy in hydrocephalic children: a DTI study
Weihong Yuan, Ellen Air, Mekibib Altaye, Scott Holland, Blaise Jones, Karin Bierbrauer, Francesco Mangano
Description of an adult spina bifida administrative sample: findings from the United States Veterans Administration Spina Bifida Health Care Program database
Melissa Danielson, Judy Thibadeau, Vincent Campbell
Young adults with spina bifida: does a specialized outpatient program make a difference in functional status and quality of life?
Vijaya M Vemulakonda, John F McLaughlin, William O Walker, Diana Cardenas, Tari Topolski
Performance of activities in daily living in children born with spina bifida
Marie Peny-Dahlstrand, Anne-Christine Åhlander, Lena Krumlinde Sundholm, Gunilla Gosman-Hedström
Stridor due to symptomatic Chiari II malformation: three cases of delayed diagnosis
Eric Levey
Urological outcome in a large group of children with meningomyelocele over thirty-six years
Catharine de Jong-de Vos van Steenwijk, Pauline Winkler-Seinstra, Pieter Dik
How to reach independence in the toilet situation – an update
Marie Donlau, Torbjörn Falkmer, Gunilla Gladh, Sven Mattsson
Improvement of self-catheterisation during weekend courses in youth hostels ("Inko Fit and Fun")
Reinhold Cremer, Gabi Bass, Britta Gebhard, Walter Bass
Curly-tail mice with neural tube defects show abnormal cortical development
Sarah Cains, Chloe Duval, Dawn Savery, Hussain Moudahi, Andrew Copp, Jaleel Miyan
In vivo analysis of morphogenesis of choroid plexus in transgenic zebrafish
Vladimir Korzh, Igor Kondrychyn, Zhang-Rue Ye, Marta Garcia-Lecea
Defective cell-cell adhesion in hyh mutant mice: a pathogenic mechanism underlying cerebral ventricular surface disruption and hydrocephalus?
Luis Federico Bátiz, César A González, Alexander Ortloff, Cristian Oliver, Sara Rodríguez, Esteban M Rodríguez
A study of the incidence of hydrocephalus and cortical development in HTx rat fetuses treated with folate supplements
Sarah Cains, Andrew Shepherd, Carys Bannister, P Jane Owen-Lynch, Jaleel Miyan
Clearance of amyloid-beta in experimental neonatal hydrocephalus
Kelley Deren Kelly, Jennifer Forsyth, Petra Klinge, Gerald Silverberg, Conrad Johanson, James P McAllister
Human arachnoid membrane: active transport of amyloid-beta
Deborah M Grzybowski, Amy C Long, Clint W Allred, David W Holman, John E Donahue, Shelley A Glimcher, Conrad Johanson, Edward Stopa, Martin Lubow
Human hydrocephalus dynamics: loss of normal pulsation absorber mechanism
Eun-Hyoung Park, Per K Eide, Joseph R Madsen
Induced canine hydrocephalus alters pulsation absorber characteristics
Eun-Hyoung Park, Stephen M Dombrowski, Mark G Luciano, Joseph R Madsen
Arachnoid cysts: a diffuse spinal fluid absorption abnormality?
Jogi V Pattisapu, Gregory Olavarria, Christopher A Gegg
Who should perform shunt surgery? Data from the UK Shunt Registry
Hugh Richards, Helen Seeley, John Pickard
Does the use of an antibacterial external ventricular drain increase the risk of resistance?
Gagori Bandopadhyay, Waheed Ashraf, Juliet Clayton, Rohit Sinha, Roger Bayston, Donald MacArthur
Outcome of surgery for scoliosis in patients with myelomeningocele
David Shurtleff, Sharon Duguay, Kit Song
Comprehensive, economical management of cerebrospinal fluid shunt infections – a twenty-one year experience
David Shurtleff, Sharon Duguay, John Loeser, Anthony Avellino
Retinol effects on CSF outflow through cultured human arachnoid granulation cells: implications for PTC
David W Holman, Martin Lubow, Deborah M Grzybowski
Evidence for CSF-vascular compliance coupling in normal pressure hydrocephalus
Stephen Dombrowski, Kevin Crutchfield, Karolyn Ligon, Judith Becker, Mark Luciano
Evidence of TAU pathology in kaolin-induced hydrocephalus model of the aged rat
Petra M Klinge, Anna Heile, Stephanie Slone, Conrad E Johanson, Miles Miller, John A Duncan III, Thomas Brinker, Gerald D Silverberg
Amyloid and tau accumulation precede CSF production decline in normal aging
Gerald D Silverberg, Ilias N Caralopoulos, Tom Saul, Stephanie Slone, Miles Miller, Arthur Messier, Elizabeth Kenney, Samir Majmudar, John A Duncan III, Conrad E Johanson
Quantitative study of gait and balance in normal pressure hydrocephalus
Stephen Dombrowski, Brian L Davis, Karolyn Ligon, Judith Becker, Brandy Wozniak, Mark Luciano
Pre- and postoperative diffusion tensor imaging in NPH
Christian Sprung, Torsten Dieckhoff, Karl-Titus Hoffmann
Evaluation of CSF flow in shunts using a non-invasive thermal technique
Gani Abazi, Laurel Fleming, Marek Swoboda, Tomer Anor, Joseph R Madsen
Are we implanting catheters that facilitate shunt failure?
Carolyn Black, James Resau, Richard West, William Grever, Vladimir Hlady, James P McAllister II
Concerns of parents of children with shunted hydrocephalus
Christian Geyer, Diana Rudolph, Holger Till, Gerd Graefe
Shunt malfunction and perioperative complications with non-programmable shunt valves in patients with normal pressure hydrocephalus in a series of 195 consecutive patients
Evan Marlin, James Golomb, Jeffery Wisoff
Adjustability of valves for shunting hydrocephalus is luxury, progress or necessity? Our personal experience to stimulate debate
Christian Sprung, Hans-Georg Schlosser
A survey of people with ventriculoperitoneal shunts in the community
Roger Bayston, Rosemary Batchelor
p73 and transthyretin expression in circumventricular organs in kaolin-induced and spontaneously hydrocephalic rats
Emilia M Carmona-Calero, Juan M Gonzalez-Toledo, Ibrahim González-Marrero, Paloma Fernández-Rodríguez, Hector de Paz-Carmona, Leandro Castañeyra-Ruiz, Maria A Marichal, Agustín Castañeyra-Ruiz, Isabel Hernandez-Garde, Agustín Castañeyra-Perdomo
Large-scale simulation of the human cranial arterial tree: utility in hydrocephalus
Tomer Anor, Leopold Grienberg, Joseph R Madsen, George E Karniadakis
The National Spina Bifida Program
Ann Alriksson-Schmidt, Mark Swanson, Judy Thibadeau
Participation in bowel emptying children and adolescents with neurogenic bladder and bowel
Marika Persson, Inger Odeholm
Neurologic recovery with conservative management in symptomatic tethered cord
Joline E Skinner, David L Nash
Current situation of young adults in a multidisciplinary spina bifida unit
Susana Rodríguez, Esther Pagès, Mar Meléndez, Judith Sánchez-Raya, Jordi Iborra, Ampar Cuxart
Ambulation in children and adolescents with spina bifida
Marcus Pauly, Reinhold Cremer
Needle anxiety: assessment of need for intervention in patients with spinal cord injury and spina bifida attending a spinal injuries centre
Jane Royle, Lissa Wright
Achondroplasia: should the urinary tract be evaluated in children?
Gemma McKenzie, David Wilkinson, James Fernandes, Julian Roberts, Ewan MacKinnon, Prasad Godbole