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Introduction: Tools available for diagnosis of normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) and prediction of shunt-response are overnight ICP monitoring, infusion studies, and extended lumbar drainage (ELD). We investigated the shunt-response predictive value by infusion tests versus ELD.
Material and Methods: We retrospectively recruited 83 patients who had undergone both infusion study and ELD assessments and compared infusion study hydrodynamics with improvement at clinic follow-up after ELD and after shunting.
Results: 62 patients had Rout >11 mmHg/mL/min. 28 Showed physiotherapy-documented improvement following ELD, and were selected for shunting, of which 21 were shunted. Of these, 19 showed improvement. Eight patients with Rout >20 mmHg/mL/min showed no response to ELD and were not shunted.
There were 21 patients with Rout <11 mmHg/mL/min: five were shunted, showed improvement at follow-up, and had Rout >6 mmHg/mL/min. ICP amplitude did not differ at baseline or plateau between responders and non-responders.
Conclusions: ELD response and CSF dynamics differed remarkably. All patients with Rout <6 mmHg/mL/min showed no improvement with ELD, indicating that ELD and shunting might be contraindicated in these subjects. High Rout patients with no response to ELD could merit further consideration.
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Levrini, V., Garnett, M., Nabbanja, E., Czosnyka, M., Czosnyka, Z.H., Lalou, A.D. (2021). Comparison of Assessment for Shunting with Infusion Studies Versus Extended Lumbar Drainage in Suspected Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus. In: Depreitere, B., Meyfroidt, G., Güiza, F. (eds) Intracranial Pressure and Neuromonitoring XVII. Acta Neurochirurgica Supplement, vol 131. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59436-7_68
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