What does ventricular enlargement mean?

Ventricular enlargement is a clinical symptom caused by increased volume in the ventricles of the brain. In acute intracranial diseases, such as severe craniocerebral injury, cerebral hemorrhage, large-area cerebral infarction, serious edema around these diseases will cause increased intracranial pressure, resulting in compression and deformation of ipsilateral ventricles and symmetrical displacement of brain tissue, thus causing acute expansion and expansion of contralateral ventricles, and even cerebral hernia. Clinically, patients will show typical headache, vomiting, consciousness disorder coma, needle-like pupil, quadriplegia and central fever. Clinical treatment needs to maintain vital signs, reduce intracranial pressure, can also take to large bone flap decompression or intracranial hematoma clearance, brain atrophy shows ventricular enlargement, such as dementia, neurosyphilis.