Postural instability and gait difficulty are prominent. It is generally treated by providing a shunt to drain off excess fluid from brain ventricles to the Peritonium. Clinically it is difficult to distinguish from Parkinson's Disease but MRI can be useful. The disease does not respond to antiparkinsonian drugs. In this disorder damage to the brain is more extensive than in Parkinson's Disease.
Main symptoms are paralysis of eye movements, difficulty in speaking, rigidity, and senility.
Early diagnosis by blood analysis and check up of the eyes is useful as further damage can be prevented by treatment. The former led me to a medical career and the latter made a surgeon out of me. These two merit performances also got me the financial assistance in the form of merit scholarship. In 1962 we returned to India. Pediatric Surgery, at that time, did not exist in India as a separate discipline.