| Her prospective parents were told only that she had had water on the brain, or hydrocephaly, as a newborn. |
| Children with hydrocephaly are not as common as many other disabilities, meaning their families and communities can often find it very hard to accept and understand. |
| In these patients, congenital occlusive hydrocephaly may rarely be observed. |
| The doctor even told Marcilio's brother that he had 30 patients with hydrocephaly like this and 29 died. |
| Other birth defects that are more frequent in obese women include oral clefts, heart anomalies, hydrocephaly, and abdominal wall abnormalities. |
| She met many children suffering from leukemia, hydrocephaly and neurologic troubles, as well as their parents, all of them striken by toxic wastes. |
