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==Diagnosis==
==Diagnosis==
[[Hydrocephalus history and symptoms |History & Symptoms]], [[Hydrocephalus physical Examination|Physical Examination]], [[Hydrocephalus CT|CT]]
[[Hydrocephalus history and symptoms |History & Symptoms]], [[Hydrocephalus physical examination|Physical Examination]], [[Hydrocephalus CT|CT]]


== Treatment ==
== Treatment ==

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Synonyms and keywords: Water on the brain

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Case Studies

One interesting case involving a person with past hydrocephalus was a 44-year old French man, whose brain had been reduced to little more than a thin sheet of actual brain tissue, due to the buildup of fluid in his skull. The man, who had a shunt inserted into his head to drain away fluid (which was removed when he was 14), went to a hospital after he had been experiencing mild weakness in his left leg.

DWS: All of the black in the middle is water and the brain matter is the rim of white along the outside of the skull. This is a screen shot from a Fox News report.

In July of 2007, Fox News quoted Dr. Lionel Feuillet of Hopital de la Timone in Marseille as saying: "The images were most unusual... the brain was virtually absent."[1] When doctors learned of the man's medical history, they did a computed tomography (CT) scan and another type of scan called magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and were astonished to see "massive enlargement" of the lateral ventricles in the skull. Intelligence tests showed the man had an IQ of 75, below the average score of 100 but not considered mentally retarded or disabled, either.

Remarkably, the man was a married father of two children, and worked as a civil servant, leading a normal life, despite having little brain tissue. "What I find amazing to this day is how the brain can deal with something which you think should not be compatible with life," commented Dr. Max Muenke, a pediatric brain defect specialist at the National Human Genome Research Institute. "If something happens very slowly over quite some time, maybe over decades, the different parts of the brain take up functions that would normally be done by the part that is pushed to the side."[2]

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