Authors of this report describe 2 patients who had undergone shunt insertion for hydrocephalus and who, at 6 weeks or 9 months after their last revision, presented with symptoms of shunt dysfunction and CSF collections at the valve site. At the ensuing shunt revision in both patients, the silicone housing was fractured and the Siphonguard was disconnected from the Codman Hakim Precision flat-bo...

Hakim al-Termizi Dahma - in the Middle Ages, Termiz was surrounded by a strong wall, and palaces mosques were built. Craftsmen's merchants' houses built beautified. ensemble at foot of castle. This survived when Genghis Khan's troops invaded destroyed city 13th century. Sheikh Abu Abdullah ibn Ali Muhammad lived end 9th He created number scientific works (but they have not reached us). also tra...

This paper reviews the clinical findings in the Hakim-Adams syndrome and distinguishes it from the more general term of normal pressure hydrocephalus. The radiographic tests to diagnose these entities are discussed in their historical context. Computed tomography has recently replaced the pneumoencephalogram for evaluating ventricular size and configuration and computed tomographic metrizamide ...

Cardiologist and HIV researcher. Born in what is now South Sudan on May 14, 1954, he died of complications from COVID-19 Jan 25, 2021, Harare, Zimbabwe, aged 66 years. James Hakim moved to Zimbabwe 1992, intending teach do research cardiology. But arrived as the country's epidemic was beginning expand. Called bring his skills clinical crisis, made switch without hesitation. “He said this needs ...