ArticleNeurosurgical review2017
LOVA: the role of endoscopic third ventriculostomy and a new proposal for diagnostic criteria.
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- Surgical management of longstanding overt ventriculomegaly in adults: evaluating the role of endoscopic third ventriculostomy.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2025Pooled it
- Morphometric changes after endoscopic third ventriculostomy: a pediatric-adult comparison.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2026Article
- Long-standing overt ventriculomegaly in adults (LOVA) as a distinct entity on the neurologist's differential: a narrative review.BMJ neurology open · 2025Review
- Secondary normal pressure hydrocephalus following pituitary apoplexy: A case report.Surgical neurology international · 2024Article
- Longstanding overt ventriculomegaly diagnosed in adolescents, not adults: a pediatric case report.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2023Article
- A case of aqueductal obstruction by web with no sign except a headache.Radiology case reports · 2022Article
- Open-aqueduct LOVA, LIAS, iNPH: a comparative clinical-radiological study exploring the "grey zone" between different forms of chronic adulthood hydrocephalus.Acta neurochirurgica · 2022Article
- Surgical Treatment of Long-Standing Overt Ventriculomegaly in Adults (LOVA): A Comparative Case Series between Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt (VPS) and Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy (ETV).International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Differentiating comorbidities and predicting prognosis in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus using cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers: a review.Croatian medical journal · 2021Review
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Abstract
The diagnostic criteria and management of this condition continue to be a topic of debate in the literature. The term definitive symptomatic LOVA (longstanding overt ventriculomegaly in adults) is applied to patients that fulfil a series of diagnostic criteria,which are reviewed in our paper. The main subject of our study is to propose a rearrangement of the criteria for the diagnosis of this entity and adjusted treatment strategies. We present our data evaluating the role of endoscopy in this pathology. This descriptive and analytical study comprised 27 adult patients with LOVA who underwent endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV). Data regarding age, gender and onset of symptoms, a previously implanted shunt, clinical examination and radiological findings at the time of diagnosis, and the intracranial pressure (ICP) recordings in some cases, were carefully retrospectively reviewed. ETV success was determined based on clinical state and radiological criteria. ETV was performed in all 27 cases. Mean follow up period was 4.2 years (6 months to 8 years). 2/27 patients (7.40%) were lost to follow-up. The overall success rate for ETV was 76% (21/25 patients). ETV resulted in shunt independency in two of the three patients with a previous shunt. Based on our results, we believe that ETV must be considered as the treatment of choice for patients with symptomatic LOVA.
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