ReviewChild's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery2003
In utero surgery for hydrocephalus.
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- Research status of fetal hydrocephalus from 2003 to 2022 based on bibliometric analysis.Ibrain · 2025Review
- Current Diagnostic, Counseling, and Treatment Options in Non-Severe and Severe Apparently Isolated Fetal Ventriculomegaly.Biomedicines · 2024Review
- Isolated Fetal Ventriculomegaly: Diagnosis and Treatment in the Prenatal Period.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Fetal Ventriculomegaly: A Review of Literature.Cureus · 2022Review
- Acceleration and plateau: two patterns and outcomes of isolated severe fetal cerebral ventricular dilation.The journal of maternal-fetal & neonatal medicine : the official journal of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine, the Federation of Asia and Oceania Perinatal Societies, the International Society of Perinatal Obstetricians · 2021Article
- Fetal therapy for congenital hydrocephalus-where we came from and where we are going.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2020Article
- The Influence of Various Cerebral and Extracerebral Pathologies on Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Values in the Fetal Brain.Journal of neuroimaging : official journal of the American Society of Neuroimaging · 2020Article
- Biomaterials in fetal surgery.Biomaterials science · 2019Review
- Congenital Aqueductal Stenosis: Findings at Fetal MRI That Accurately Predict a Postnatal Diagnosis.AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology · 2018Article
- Fetal ventriculomegaly: Diagnosis, treatment, and future directions.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2017Review
- A newborn with respiratory distress and hydrocephalus caused by a giant mature teratoma.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2012Article
- Fetal neurosurgery: current state of the art.Future neurology · 2011Article
- Fetal hydrocephalus caused by cryptic intraventricular hemorrhage.Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) · 2010Article
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Abstract
introductionNeonatal hydrocephalus is one of the most common congenital anomalies affecting the nervous system. DISCUSSION: Currently, ultrasonography allows for early detection of fetal ventriculomegaly and presents the family with several treatment options: termination of pregnancy, early delivery and neonatal shunting, and delivery at term followed by shunting. Despite ventricular decompression after birth, the cognitive outcome is variable as prolonged in utero hydrocephalus has a detrimental effect. In the early 1980s, fetal intervention was explored with the intention of improving outcome. However, patient selection was poor. Fetal ventriculomegaly from other conditions was not adequately distinguished from fetal hydrocephalus. In addition, fetal surgical techniques were not advanced. Consequently, the results were poor and a de facto moratorium on fetal shunting was imposed. However, recent improvements in fetal imaging, such as magnetic resonance imaging, and advances in fetal surgical techniques offer the possibility that properly selected fetuses with hydrocephalus can benefit from an in utero intervention.
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