THPO and Intraventricular hemorrhage: Higher levels of thrombopoietin [34], ferritin [35], nerve growth factor[36], chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan [37] transforming growth factor β1 [38,39], transforming growth factor β2 [37], S-100 protein [40,41], and vascular endothelial growth factor [42] have been found in ventricular CSF in patients with hydrocephalus resulting from intraventricular hemorrhage.