Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus

Sleep Apnea

Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunt Occlusion

Clinical response to a CSF shunt insertion

CSF shunt diversion

Vicente Vanaclocha

Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus and Sleep Apnea

Normal-pressure Hydrocephalus. Relationship Between Sleep Apnea and Intracranial and Intraabdominal Pressures. Outcome Prognostic Factors in CSF Shunting. Features Guiding to Implant a Ventricle-peritoneal Versus a Ventriculo-atrial Shunt

Patients will be evaluated with the Mini_mental State Examination before and after CSF shunting to see the degree of improvement they get from this surgical treatment

Patients will be evaluated with the NPH before and after CSF shunting to see the degree of improvement they get from this surgical treatment

University of Valencia

Patients diagnosed of normal-pressure hydrocephalus will undergo sleep studies to rule our sleep apnea. Those with sleep apnea will be treated for this condition and we will see if the hydrocephalus symptoms improve

Patients will not be informed of the final treatment decided

Use acupuncture to treat the patients who received the surgery of CPA tumor. Acupoints of reference: Yifeng(TE17),Tinggong(SI19),Xiaguan(ST07),Wind Pool(GB20),Outer Pass(SJ5),Union Valley(LI4),Yang Mound Spring(GB34),Leg Three Li(ST36).
Use questionnaires to evaluate.The questionnaires including House-Brackmann Grading Scale,WHOQOL-BREF Taiwan Version,Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy: General(FACT-G),Visual Analogue Scale(VAS).

1.Use questionnaires to evaluate.The questionnaires including House-Brackmann Grading Scale,WHOQOL-BREF Taiwan Version,Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy: General(FACT-G),Visual Analogue Scale(VAS).

Acupuncture

Tumor, Brain

Skull Base Tumor

Cerebellopontine Angle Tumor

Complication of Treatment

Quality of Life

Neuromuscular Blockade

Center for Traditional Medicine, Taipei VGH

Evaluation of Acupuncture Effects for Complications After Surgery of Cerebellopontine Angle Tumor in Skull Base

Evaluate the quality of life after acupuncture treatment, use WHOQOL-BREF Taiwan Version questionnaire. Scale: 0~100, higher scores, better life quality. Counted by each time recording and using mode conversion to get final scale.

measurement for pain,to assess the pain degree. Scale: 0~100 mm, higher scores, higher pain . Counted by each time recording.

Evaluate the quality of life for " the patients of CPA tumor in skull base " after acupuncture treatment,there are four parts,physiology,social and family, emotion,function.Scale: 0~100, higher scores, better life quality. Counted by each time recording and using mode conversion to get final scale.

measurement and evaluate the level for the patients of facial paralysis after surgery of CPA tumor in skull base.Measure the upwards and outwards movement situation of eyebrows and mouth. Each reference point scores 1 point for each 0.25 cm movement, up to a maximum of 1 cm. The scores are then added together, to give a number out of 8.After that, the scale of facial paralysis corresponding to the score was divided into five levels, with the first level being the mildest and the fifth level being the most severe.

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Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus and Sleep Apnea

Evaluation of Acupuncture Effects for Complications After Surgery of Cerebellopontine Angle Tumor in Skull Base

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