Posts by Nagagopal Venna, MD
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NEJM Images in Clinical Medicine: Using Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Placement to Treat Normal-pressure Hydrocephalus
Neurologists at Mass General explore the case of a woman who endured gait disturbance, cognitive impairment and urinary incontinence for 2 years before she was diagnosed with normal-pressure hydrocephalus and successfully treated with surgical shunting.
Biography
Graduated from Guntur Medical College, Nagarjuna University in Andhra Pradesh, India.
Internal Medicine training in Ireland, leading to Membership of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of Ireland and of United Kingdom ( MRCPI, MRCPUK)
Neurology Residency at Neurological Unit of Boston City Hospital and Boston University School of Medicine
Director of Clinical Neurology at Boston City Hospital for 18 years
Currently, Director of the Neurology Clinic at MGH
Currently, Director on the Neuro-Infectious Diseases at MGH
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