'There was no hope': Treatable disease often mistaken for Alzheimer's! LINK to read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49375308 By Robin Levinson-King, BBC News, Toronto
Tag: Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
Thousands of patients with curable brain condition… – Article in The Daily Mail Online
Thousands of patients with curable brain condition ‘may be languishing in care homes after being wrongly diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease’ About 20,000 Britons are thought to have normal pressure hydrocephalus The condition is caused by fluid becoming trapped on the brain Richard Edwards, neurosurgeon, said doctors often mistake the illness for dementia, […]
I was misdiagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, article in Financial Times
Tackling the similar but treatable ‘normal pressure hydrocephalus’ would advance public health……. This patient asked for a second opinion and got in contact with the neurosurgeon responsible for NPH patients in Queen Square, London, Laurence Watkins and then got the correct diagnosis and treatment. Link here. (If the article do not show, google: I […]
