Dr. Vikram Prabhu urges further development of neurosurgical technique to treat hydrocephalus: 4 notes

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Neurosurgeon Vikram Prabhu, MD, discussed hydrocephalus in Uganda in an editorial published in World Neurosurgery.

Here are four notes:

 

1. Dr. Prabhu is a professor in the department of neurological surgery of Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine in Maywood, Ill.

 

2. In the editorial, Dr. Prabhu urges neurosurgeons to carry on the work of Benjamin Warf, MD, who won a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant" and is now at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

 

3. Dr. Warf developed a one-time, minimally invasive endoscopic procedure that is effective and easy to implement. He established a center in Uganda that provides neurosurgical care to children with hydrocephalus.

 

4. Additionally, Dr. Prabhu proposed that neurosurgeons set a precise goal for themselves — "No child should die of untreated hydrocephalus anywhere on this planet by 2030," he writes.

 

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