how to cite this article: abdinia b, barzegar m, maleki m, behbod h, oskoui sh. association of brucella meningoencephalitis with cerebrospinal fluid shunt in a child: a case report. iran j child neurol. 2013 winter:7(1):35-38.   brucellosis is an endemic zoonosis in iran. it is a systemic infection that can involve any organs or systems of the body and have variable presentations. ventriculoper...

The aim of this study was to determine whether the improvement of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flow dynamics by CSF shunting, can suppress the oligomerization of amyloid β-peptide (Aβ), by measuring the levels of Alzheimer's disease (AD)-related proteins in the CSF before and after lumboperitoneal shunting. Lumbar CSF from 32 patients with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) (samples w...

background: intrapulmonary vascular abnormalities associated with liver cirrhosis may result in intrapulmonary right-to-left shunt and hypoxemia. the aim of this study was to use contrast enhanced echocardiography to detect intrapulmonary vascular abnormalities in patients with liver cirrhosis candidates for liver transplantation.   methods: one hundred and two adult patients underwent contrast...

To cite: Benzimra JD, Simon S, Sinclair AJ, et al. Pract Neurol 2015;15: 72–73. CASE A 17-year-old girl presented with a 2-week history of increasingly severe generalised headache that was worse on waking, with blurring of vision and transient visual obscurations. Her visual acuity was 6/24 right eye and 6/36 left eye with a marked constriction of visual fields. Fundus examination showed severe...

ventriculoperitoneal (vp) shunt placement that diverts the cerebrospinal fluid (csf) into the peritoneal cavity is the most common method of treatment of hydrocephalus. this shunt has a high incidence of malfunction mainly due to catheter obstruction or infection. about 20% of these complications are abdominal that may occur at any time after shunt placement from 1 week to several years. this s...

background: dilated cardiomyopathy is associated with a progressive deterioration in cardiac function and eventually death. initial interest in this hypothesis was to create another large animal model for dilated cardiomyopathy in addition to pigs and dogs . methods: after the induction of anesthesia to 10 female sheep, a carotid-jugular shunt was created in all the animals via a 1-cm fistula b...

Three cases are reported of the pseudotumour cerebri syndrome-that is, intracranial hypertension without mass lesion or enlarged ventricles, due to cryptococcal meningitis. In these patients the papilloedema was successfully treated with optic nerve sheath decompression, and the intracranial hypertension with lumboperitoneal CSF shunting. These cases support the concept that pseudotumour cerebr...