Guidelines for Management of Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus: Second Edition

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  • MORI Etsuro
    Department of Behavioral Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine
  • ISHIKAWA Masatsune
    Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus Center, Otowa Hospital
  • KATO Takeo
    Department of Neurology, Hematology, Metabolism, Endocrinology, and Diabetology, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine
  • KAZUI Hiroaki
    Department of Psychiatry, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine
  • MIYAKE Hiroji
    Nishinomiya Kyoritsu Neurosurgical Hospital
  • MIYAJIMA Masakazu
    Department of Neurosurgery, Juntendo University
  • NAKAJIMA Madoka
    Department of Neurosurgery, Juntendo University
  • HASHIMOTO Masaaki
    Department of Neurosurgery, Noto General Hospital
  • KURIYAMA Nagato
    Department of Epidemiology for Community Health and Medicine, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine
  • TOKUDA Takahiko
    Department of Molecular Pathobiology of Brain Diseases (Department of Neurology), Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine
  • ISHII Kazunari
    Department of Radiology, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine
  • KAIJIMA Mitsunobu
    Department of Neurosurgery, Hokushinkai Megumino Hospital
  • HIRATA Yoshihumi
    Department of Neurosurgery, Kumamoto Takumadai Hospital
  • SAITO Makoto
    Department of Behavioral Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine
  • ARAI Hajime
    Department of Neurosurgery, Juntendo University

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  • Guidelines for management of idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus. 2nd Edn
  • Japanese Society of Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus, Guidelines for management of idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus: second edition
  • Guidelines for management of idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus: 2nd ed
  • Guidelines for management of idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus: Second edition. Japanese Society of Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus

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Abstract

Among the various disorders manifesting dementia, gait disturbance, and urinary incontinence in the elderly population, idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) is becoming of great importance. After the publication of the first edition of the Guidelines for Management of Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus in 2004 (the English version was published in 2008), clinical awareness of iNPH has risen dramatically, and the number of shunt surgeries has increased rapidly across Japan. Clinical and basic research on iNPH has increased significantly, and more high-level evidence has since been generated. The second edition of the Japanese Guidelines was thus published in July 2011, to provide a series of timely evidence-based recommendations related to iNPH. The revision of the Guidelines has been undertaken by a multidisciplinary expert working group of the Japanese Society of Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus in conjunction with the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare research project on “Studies on the epidemiology, pathophysiology, and treatment of normal pressure hydrocephalus.” This English version of the second edition of the Guidelines was made to share these ideas with the international community and to promote international research on iNPH.<br>

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