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What alternative medicine can i take for intercranual hypertension?

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Shunt: Has hydrocephalus been diagnosed? If so, and especially if the pressure is high, and if this is persistent, and not external hydrocephalus, the treatment is surgery with a shunt from the head usually to the abdominal cavity.

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