Early in our experience, like other vascular centers, we also had many questions regarding the indications for CSF drainage during TEVAR. Our initial strategy was to employ CSF drainage ...

What is a lumbar drain? A lumbar drain is a small flexible tube that is placed in the lumbar spine. The tube drains some of the cerebrospinal fluid that fills the ventricles of the brain and surrounds ...

U.S.A. By infusing saline intrathecally at a constant rate until a new steady-state cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure is attained, one can estimate clinically the apparent resistance (Ra) to drainage ...

slaz.nl Objective: It has been reported that temporary external lumbar CSF drainage (ELD) is a very accurate test for predicting the outcome after ventricular shunting in patients with normal pressure ...

highlighting the first-ever randomized prospective study to assess cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) drainage in acute spinal cord injury. CSF drainage was shown to be safe and a potential adjunct to the ...

In a study published today (July 24) in Nature, researchers show that there is a hot spot of meningeal lymphatic vessels at the base of the rodent skull that is specialized to drain CSF and allow ...

A CSF leak is when CSF drains from a tear or hole in the membrane that surrounds the brain and spinal cord. The resulting drainage can escape from a person's nose—appearing just like a runny nose.

When there is an imbalance between the production and absorption of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), is known as hydrocephalus. Surplus production of CSF, obstruction of circulation, faulty absorption, or ...