• Abdelsimar T Omar, Minette Krisel A Manalo, Ralph Rommualdo A Zuniega, John Carlo B Reyes, Edroico Mari B Brillante, and Khu Kathleen Joy O KJO Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosciences, College of Medicine and Philippine General Hospital, University of the Philippines Manila, Ma.
• Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosciences, College of Medicine and Philippine General Hospital, University of the Philippines Manila, Manila, Philippines. Electronic address: atomar@up.edu.ph.
• World Neurosurg. 2020 Dec 1; 144: e589-e596.

ObjectiveHydranencephaly is a congenital central nervous system disorder characterized by the complete or near-complete absence of the cerebral cortex and basal ganglia. Because of its rarity, data on the clinical features and survivorship remain sparse. We aim to determine the clinical features and survivorship of a cohort of patients with hydranencephaly.MethodsWe performed a retrospective cohort study of all patients diagnosed with hydranencephaly at our institution from 2008 to 2018. Data on demographics, clinical features, presence of comorbidities, surgical operations performed, and status on last follow-up were collected. Survival curves were generated using Kaplan-Meier analysis.ResultsFifty patients were included in the cohort, who had a median age at diagnosis of 4 months and a female predilection. The most common clinical manifestations were macrocephaly (92%) and seizures or myoclonic movements. Infection was present in 36% of cases, endocrinopathies in 22%, dysmorphisms in 20%, and cardiac disease in 8%. Twenty patients underwent shunt insertion, with half developing a postoperative complication at a mean follow-up of 14.9 months. The median survival of the cohort was not reached at 7.5 years. Among the patients with follow-up, characteristics were similar between the surgical and nonsurgical groups, except for the greater incidence of infections in the nonsurgical group. The survival curves among the groups were significantly different, with a hazard ratio of 3.731 in the nonsurgical group.ConclusionsIn this large single-center retrospective cohort of patients with hydranencephaly, novel findings are presented regarding the clinical manifestations and survivorship of this condition.Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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