iNPH—the mystery resolving
Open Access
- 8 February 2021
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by EMBO in EMBO Molecular Medicine
- Vol. 13 (3), e13720
- https://doi.org/10.15252/emmm.202013720
Abstract
Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) is characterized clinically by degradation of gait, cognition, and urinary continence. INPH is progressive (Andrén et al, 2014), still probably underdiagnosed (Williams et al, 2019) but potentially treatable by CSF diversion (Kazui et al, 2015). Familial aggregation is a strong indicator of genetic regulation in the disease process iNPH (Fig 1). Enlargement of brain ventricles is associated with failed cerebrospinal (CSF) homeostasis by so far mostly unknown mechanisms. A mutation of the cilia gene CFAP43 in iNPH family, confirmed by a knocked‐out mouse model (Morimoto et al, 2019), allelic variation of NME8 (Huovinen et al, 2017), a segmental copy number loss in SFMBT1 in selected iNPH patients (Sato et al, 2016), and current results by Yang et al (2021) indicate that cilia dysfunction is one of the key mechanisms behind iNPH.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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