著者

Etsuro MORI Masatsune ISHIKAWA Takeo KATO Hiroaki KAZUI Hiroji MIYAKE Masakazu MIYAJIMA Madoka NAKAJIMA Masaaki HASHIMOTO Nagato KURIYAMA Takahiko TOKUDA Kazunari ISHII Mitsunobu KAIJIMA Yoshihumi HIRATA Makoto SAITO Hajime ARAI

出版者

The Japan Neurosurgical Society

雑誌

Neurologia medico-chirurgica (ISSN:04708105)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.52, no.11, pp.775-809, 2012 (Released:2012-11-25)

参考文献数

253

被引用文献数

149 478

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Among the various disorders manifesting dementia, gait disturbance, and urinary incontinence in the elderly population, idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) is becoming of great importance. After the publication of the first edition of the Guidelines for Management of Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus in 2004 (the English version was published in 2008), clinical awareness of iNPH has risen dramatically, and the number of shunt surgeries has increased rapidly across Japan. Clinical and basic research on iNPH has increased significantly, and more high-level evidence has since been generated. The second edition of the Japanese Guidelines was thus published in July 2011, to provide a series of timely evidence-based recommendations related to iNPH. The revision of the Guidelines has been undertaken by a multidisciplinary expert working group of the Japanese Society of Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus in conjunction with the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare research project on “Studies on the epidemiology, pathophysiology, and treatment of normal pressure hydrocephalus.” This English version of the second edition of the Guidelines was made to share these ideas with the international community and to promote international research on iNPH.