Key takeaways:

The condition is difficult to diagnose as symptoms can mimic normal aging.

Open communication between patients and clinicians can overcome barriers.

Minimally invasive shunts may provide more rapid treatment.

Normal pressure hydrocephalus affects approximately 800,000 individuals in the United States, impacting a range of quality-of-life issues such as memory, movement and bladder function.

“NPH is a condition where there is an increase in pressure from excess spinal fluid accumulating inside the ventricles, which are hollow fluid-filled spaces inside everyone’s brain,” Peter Boling, MD, chief of the division of geriatric medicine in the department of internal medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University Health, told Healio. “This fluid pressure causes certain aspect

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