A 47-year-old member asked:
What imaging is being done on hydranencephaly?
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Dr. Henry Nganswered
Internal Medicine and Pediatrics 21 years experience
Depends: I assume you mean hydrocepahlus - aka "water on the brain". This is a condition with an abnormality in cerebrospinal fluid flow/production and results in increased pressure within the ventricular system. This can occur in infancy and is noted with a rapidly enlarging head, but can be acquired after infection or trauma/bleeding in the brain usually an head ultrasound or ct is done.
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Dr. Ralph Morgan Lewisanswered
Family Medicine 39 years experience
Hydranencephaly is…: Rare condition in which the brain's cerebral hemispheres are absent and replaced by sacs filled with cerebrospinal fluid. Mri may be best imaging format. See following nih site for more info on this condition http://www.Ninds.Nih.Gov/disorders/hydranencephaly/hydranencephaly.Htm.
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Dr. Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay commented
Hospital-based practice 22 years experience
Hydranencephaly is normally seen on ultrasound, and can be seen on the routine trimester ultrasounds that are performed during pregnancy. CT scans are another way to diagnose hydranencephaly. Just due to shear volume, I would think, ultrasound detects more hydranencephaly in newborns and in utero than MRI and CT scan combined.
Oct 19, 2016
Dr. James Fergusonanswered
Pediatrics 47 years experience
Simple works: Hydranencephaly is often detected today by random ultrasound performed during an otherwise routine pregnancy. Many sophisticated methods can confirm this after birth but the simple one also works. The skull of a hydranencephalic newborn is thin will light up like a lantern in a dark room if a dark light is placed against the back of the skull.Investing with more expensive imaging is unnecessary.
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Last updated Nov 28, 2017
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