@article{article_393729, title={The Analysis of Syrian Refugee Patients Treated With the Diagnose of Hydrocephalus: The Study of 28 Cases}, journal={Kafkas Journal of Medical Sciences}, volume={7}, pages={67–70}, year={2017}, author={Aykanat, Ömer}, keywords={hydrocephalus, refugee, surgery}, abstract={Hydrocephalus is a condition which results from some abnormalities in normal pathology of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain (CSF) and dilatation of ventricles, occurring with sometimes increased pressure and sometimes without any pressure and it displays various clinical findings. Hydrocephalus does not contain only the pathological entity; it involves a wide pathological group as well. Therefore, though it is possible to make various classification for hydrocephalus, it can be divided into two groups as congenital and acquired in terms of etiological. The exact diagnosis of hydrocephalus is determined by screening neural tissue. These screening methods are transfontanellar ultrasound, computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The main treatment for hydrocephalus is surgical. The fundamental aim in surgical treatment is to make parenchymal thickness 3.5 cm by reducing the intracranial pressure (ICP) to normal levels in order to increase brain tissue volume. In our research, we retrospectively studied on 28 Syrian refugees treated because of hydrocephalus for one year. We assessed the patients’ age, sex, complaint, etiology, factors during the disease, shunt infection, shunt dysfunction, surgical complications and post-operative findings. We searched for the age distribution of the patients, the number of men and women and the factors seen during the disease. We classified the complaints of the patients, etiological factors and the developing complications on the patients by calculating their numbers. We assessed the improvement of the patients’ complaints after surgical operation and the continuing situation for 4 months follow-up on average.}, number={1}, publisher={Kafkas University}