Normaldruckhydrozephalus
Über den Vortrag
Der Vortrag „Normaldruckhydrozephalus“ von Roy Strowd, MD ist Bestandteil des Kurses „Weitere Demenzformen“.
Quiz zum Vortrag
What is hydrocephalus?
- Increase in ventricular fluid and ventricular size
- Increased intracranial pressure and increased ventricular size
- Enlarged head circumference with imaging correlation
- Clinical syndrome of "wet, wacky, and wobbly"
Which of the following is a major secondary cause of normal pressure hydrocephalus? (Select all that apply.)
- Subarachnoid hemorrhage
- Acute and/or chronic meningitis
- Chronic ischemia
- Acute stroke
- Alzheimer dementia
What is the classical clinical triad seen in normal pressure hydrocephalus?
- Incontinence, magnetic gait ataxia, behavioral disturbances ("wet, wobbly, wacky")
- Scanning speech, intention tremor, nystagmus
- Bradycardia, bradypnea, hypertension
- Ptosis, miosis, anhidrosis
What are the classic neuroimaging findings of normal pressure hydrocephalus?
- Ventriculomegaly in the absence of atrophy
- Periventricular enhancement (Dawson fingers)
- Cortical atrophy with ventricular enlargement
- Atrophy of the corpus callosum and scattered white matter enhancement
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Dozent des Vortrages Normaldruckhydrozephalus
Roy Strowd, MD
Dr. Roy Strowd is the Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Medical Education at the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, in North Carolina, USA.
He obtained his MD from Wake Forest School of Medicine in 2009, and his MEd from Johns Hopkins University in 2021. Currently, he co-directs the Neurofibromatosis and Tuberous Sclerosis Clinics at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, and is a researcher for the Adult Brain Tumor Consortium (ABTC) and Alliance for Clinical Trials in Neuro-Oncology.
Due to his achievements, he earned the M. Brownell Anderson Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Within Lecturio, Dr. Strowd teaches courses on Clinical Neurology.
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