Rinsho Shinkeigaku (Clinical Neurology)

Brief Clinical Note

Clinical features and effects of shunt surgery in patients with progressive supranuclear palsy and idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus

Naoki Yamahara, M.D., Nobuaki Yoshikura, M.D., Ph.D. and Takayoshi Shimohata, M.D., Ph.D.

Department of Neurology, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine

This study aimed to retrospectively review the frequency and clinical features of 13 patients with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) and idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH). All patients were found to have PSP-Richardson's syndrome (PSP-RS). Shunt surgery was effective in 5 of 11 patients (45.5%). A comparison of these 5 patients who responded to shunt surgery versus the remaining 6 patients revealed a significant difference in the reduction of frontal lobe blood flow on cerebral perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) (P = 0.018). These results suggest that PSP-RS is common in patients with PSP and iNPH and indicate the usefulness of cerebral perfusion SPECT in estimating the effect of shunt surgery.
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(CLINICA NEUROL, 64: 113|116, 2024)
key words: progressive supranuclear palsy, idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus, shunt surgery, cerebral perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography

(Received: 30-Aug-23)