Hypertensive hydrocephalic syndrome: symptoms, causes, consequences

Hypertensive hydrocephalic syndrome is a disease characterized by the accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain, or more precisely, in its ventricles and under the membranes, which results in increased intracranial pressure. This disease is due to the partial impossibility of outflow of liquor.

Hypertensive-hydrocephalic syndrome: symptoms

Signs of hypertension-hydrocephalic syndrome are:

• Headache;
• Redness of the eyes, impaired vision;
• Visibility of subcutaneous vessels;
• Loss of consciousness;
• Sleep disturbance;
• Increased head size.

Often hypertensive-hydrocephalic syndrome is found in infants. And also often the doctors put such a diagnosis wrongly, focusing on the signs that may not be relevant to this disease.

Symptoms of this syndrome in infants are:

• Increased head volume;
• Frequent vomiting;
• Anxiety, frequent crying;
• Convulsions, increased tone of the limbs;
• Bulging fontanel;
• Reluctant sucking.

Hypertensive-hydrocephalic syndrome: causes

This syndrome can appear in the newborn due to mothers' infections during pregnancy, birth trauma, malformation of the brain. Often, this syndrome manifests itself in premature infants.

Children may develop the disease due to complications after the infection. Symptoms of the disease in children are: irritability, aggressiveness, restlessness, vomiting, intolerable headaches, drowsiness, lethargy, visual disturbances, fixed position of the head.

In adults, the syndrome can appear after the receipt of craniocerebral trauma, due to infections, including neuroinfections.

Hypertensive-hydrocephalic syndrome: treatment

In order to correctly diagnose the disease, it is necessary to pass an echoencephologogram, a rheoencephalogram, an electroencephalogram, a computer tomography. A neurologist, a neurosurgeon, an ophthalmologist, a psychiatrist must be examined.

Treatment depends on the root cause of this disease. If it is an infection, measures are taken to eliminate it, if trauma is the fault, appropriate therapy is carried out.

If the diagnosis is confirmed, the patient needs immediate hospitalization. Drug treatment involves the use of funds designed to increase the outflow of liquor and reduce the production of cerebrospinal fluid. If the drug treatment did not produce tangible results, then surgical intervention can be applied. Surgical way removes the formation, interfering with a full outflow of liquor. In most cases, the patient is shunted, which is the introduction of the shunt into the ventricular area, through which the outflow of excess fluid is carried out.

Hypertensive-hydrocephalic syndrome: consequences

This disease can have the most serious consequences. If medical measures are not taken on time, the syndrome can degenerate into a chronic illness that is fraught with complete blindness, developmental delay, paralysis, coma, dementia. If the measures are not taken in time, the consequences of this syndrome can be the saddest, often with a fatal outcome.

Prevention

To prevent this syndrome, you should avoid infectious diseases during the waiting period for the child, use caution medication during pregnancy. A prospective mother needs to undergo an ultrasound examination during pregnancy and make an ultrasound to a child after birth. Monthly tracking of the change in size and shape of the head.