Excogita was selected by the Università Sacro Cuore in Rome to design and realize an intracranial simulator to study the hydrocephalus phenomenon, a condition characterised by an increased volume of the Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) in the patient’s brain. This may lead to intracranial hypertension and to damages of the cerebral tissue. Hydrocephalies causes abnormal build-up of Cerebrospinal Fluid in the ventricular cavity (non communicating hydrocephalus) or both in the ventricles and in the whole sub-cranial space (communicating hydrocephalus). In case an infant is subjected to hydrocephalus, before the biological welding of the cranial suture, a macro-hydrocephalus will occur. Normal values of the CSF are enclosed between 150 and 200 ml (100-130cc). Each day about 350-450 ml of CSF are produced by the choroids plexus, in an healthy patient the liquor circulation in the body must be guaranteed.
Excogita developed a system able to simulate all the scientific medical and biological information provided by the Prof. Carmelo Anile (Università Sacro Cuore di Roma) and by the Ing. Antonio Ficola (Professor at the University of Perugia).
