CHICAGO — The use of lumbar drain placement significantly reduces the risk for postoperative cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leaks in patients undergoing endoscopic endonasal skull base surgery, new ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . EARLYDRAIN trial included 287 adults randomly assigned to receive lumbar drainage with standard care or standard ...

Winner of the Synthes Skull Base Award, Nathan T. Zwagerman, MD, presented his research, A Prospective, Randomized Control Trial for Lumbar Drain Placement after Endoscopic Endonasal Skull Base ...

Charlottesville, VA (August 20, 2013). Researchers at Duke University conducted a randomized clinical trial in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). In this study, the researchers compared two ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Although uncommon, cerebrospinal fluid leak following cervical discectomy and fusion is a serious complication; ...

The FDA has handed down a Class I label, the agency’s most serious, to a Medtronic recall of medical tubing used to drain a patient’s cerebrospinal fluid. The recall spans more than 45,000 equipment ...

Normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) is an accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in and around the brain and spinal cord, which can cause symptoms such as abnormal gait, urinary incontinence and ...

Researchers at Duke University conducted a randomized clinical trial in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). In this study, the researchers compared two approaches to intracranial pressure ...