Changes Clinical Practice: Infants and children who present with new neurologic symptoms up to 7 days following lumbar puncture procedures should receive ultrasound or magnetic resonance imaging ...

That was the beginning of another challenge as I was told the next route was a lumbar puncture. The Johns Hopkins Medicine says a lumbar puncture or spinal tap, is a diagnostic and/or therapeutic ...

In this new study, levels of p-tau217 in the blood reflected the levels of amyloid and tau proteins seen in brain scans and lumbar punctures. "Before any blood tests can become standard diagnostic ...

ECI uses CSF, which surrounds the nervous system, as a pathway to deliver targeted devices. By performing a simple lumbar ...