Magnetic resonance imaging for idiopathic normal-pressure hydrocephalus: A review of the scientific literature

Among elderly patients, normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) is a socially significant and as yet unresolved problem in modern medicine. Its diagnosis is signifi cantly complicated by the similarity of its clinical manifestations to those of neurodegenerative and vascular diseases (vascular dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, progressive supranuclear palsy). The aim. To present the neuroradiological markers commonly associated with normal pressure hydrocephalus, as well as the current radiological scale for assessing the probability of NPH (Radscale), its advantages, and disadvantages. This scale allows for the standardization of the assessment of radiological signs when NPH is suspected and can be used as a diagnostic screening tool.