Fig. 3

Preoperative ventricular CSF concentrations of ECM proteins in relation to clinical outcome after shunt surgery. None of the ECM proteins showed any differences between patients that improved after surgery and those who remained unchanged. Mann–Whitney test was applied to investigate the differences between the patients who did (improved; n = 20) or did not (non-improved; n = 8) improve following shunt surgery. INPH patients without any co-morbidities are displayed in the graphs as squares. The two groups were age- and gender-matched. A representative peptide of brevican (B156) and of neurocan (N194) has been displayed