Overcoming hydrocephalus

HAVE YOU EVER WANTED TO MEET A SHUNT “COMPANY” REPRESETNATIVE/SPECIALIST? HERE ARE SOME HIGHLIGHTS FROM OUR MEETING: The meeting yesterday with the shunt/medical device representative could not have gone better.   The representative or “Nuero specialist” provided me with some great insight.   Additionally he offered to help in any reasonable way possible.   Some key points from the meeting included:   What we call shunt failures are typically the proximal catheter (Catheter from the shunt to the ventricle) acquiring a buildup of protein and blocking CSF (Spinal fluid) flow from the ventricle to the shunt.   This particular representative expressed how from his perspective it’s viewed as a condition or by-product of hydrocephalus, not necessarily a “failure of the product”.   But stated that we need to have innovation that would prevent the buildup   and stop the blockage.   This representative named Frank showed serious passion for in...

Hawke has had some rough days recentlly; We are in prayer weather we need to head to nuerosurgery today . . .praying for discernment and th anking all of you for your prayers and love! Seems like his overdrainage won't stop, based upon the symptoms we are seeing and this past month.  Based on some nuersurgery articles we are reading finding a shunt that works may be like a crap-shot? "The major contributor to recurrent malfunction is the development of very small or slit-like ventricles and chronic shunt overdrainage. Although overdrainage seems to occur in most patients shunted in childhood, it is the development of craniocerebral disproportion that is the primary underlying pathophysiology." http://book2.neurosurgeon.org/?defaultarticle=&defaultnode=2648&layout=22&pagefunction=Load+Layout " None of the particular valve designs that have been used clinically has eliminated the phenomenon of chronic overdrainage. Some designs seem to allow overdrain...