08Diseases of the nervous system
Disorders of cerebrospinal fluid pressure or flow
8D64Hydrocephalus
8D64.0Communicating hydrocephalus
8D64.04
category
Normal-pressure hydrocephalus
Definition A clinical syndrome mainly comprising gait disturbance, dementia, and urinary incontinence, and associated with dilatation of the ventricular system of the brain. Most of the times demonstrating normal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure at lumbar puncture.
Also indexed as
Idiopathic normal-pressure hydrocephalus NPH - [normal pressure hydrocephalus] Normal-pressure hydrocephalus Secondary normal-pressure hydrocephalus normal pressure hydrocephalus NOS normal pressure hydrocephaly
Nearby in Communicating hydrocephalus
International Classification of Diseases, Eleventh Revision (ICD-11), World Health Organization (WHO) 2019/2021, https://icd.who.int/browse11. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 3.0 IGO (CC BY-ND 3.0 IGO).
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