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Integra LifeSciences Corporation
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Mature patients over sixty, exhibiting gait disturbance, dementia and urinary incontinence may not be suffering from Alzheimer’s or other neurodegenerative disorders, but from Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH). The cause of this debilitating condition is unclear. But many clinicians cite an abnormal accumulation of CSF that dilates and enlarges the ventricles, unnaturally stretching delicate cerebral nerve tissue. NPH does not measurably increase ICP, so unlike most hydrocephalus, it can easily go undetected.
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