Home Contact Sitemap

PedAM

Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines




Disease sarcoidosis
Phenotype C0020255|hydrocephalus
Sentences 5
PubMedID- 21539747 Six years previously, neuro-sarcoidosis presenting with diplopia and hydrocephalus had been confirmed by meningeal biopsy, and an mri-conditional programmable ventriculo-peritoneal shunt (ps medical strata® valve, medtronic) had been inserted.
PubMedID- 25653872 The remaining patients died from a myriad of causes including chronic idiopathic progressive myopathy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, central nervous system sarcoidosis with hydrocephalus, multisystem organ failure in the setting of cerebral palsy, and dementia with lewy bodies.
PubMedID- 24124650 A prospective study showed that hydrocephalus occurred in 6% of patients with neurosarcoidosis [2], but most of these patients had previously diagnosed systemic sarcoidosis which required corticosteroid therapy.
PubMedID- 24765327 sarcoidosis presenting with a hydrocephalus is even rarer and poses a substantial diagnostic dilemma.3,5 adequate diagnosis relies upon the ability of clinicians to recognize this disorder.
PubMedID- 25662384 sarcoidosis presenting with acute hydrocephalus in a new zealand european female.

Page: 1