There is no cure for hydrocephalus and very little research. The treatment/management tool is a shunt. It's basic design was developed in the 1950s, and has an average 50% failure rate after two years. The NIH spend sixty cents per person per year with hydrocephalus, compared with $300 per person per year with diabetes, yet there are the same number of people in the USA living with hydrocephalus as there are with diabetes.
It costs the USA one Billion dollars each year in health care costs to treat hydrocephalus.
But this is where I'm 'One of the Lucky Ones'. Sixty percent of children with hydrocephalus are not independent as adults. Fifty percent of children with hydrocephalus score 80 or below on standardized intelligence tests. Even fewer I'm guessing go on to go to college and get a degree.
It costs the USA one Billion dollars each year in health care costs to treat hydrocephalus.
But this is where I'm 'One of the Lucky Ones'. Sixty percent of children with hydrocephalus are not independent as adults. Fifty percent of children with hydrocephalus score 80 or below on standardized intelligence tests. Even fewer I'm guessing go on to go to college and get a degree.
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