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Cerebrospinal fluid shunts in the maternity context [PDF]

, 2017
Advances in medicine mean there are more women with complex medical histories giving birth. This may include women with conditions such as hydrocephalus requiring a cerebrospinal fluid shunt.
Yana Richens, Simon D Thompson
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Endoscopic treatment of cerebrospinal fluid pathway obstructions [PDF]

, 2007
This article describes our endoscopic techniques developed for the treatment of various obstructions of cerebrospinal fluid pathways. Blocked cerebrospinal fluid pathways result in ventricular dilation in front of the obstruction, which may cause acute ...
Schroeder, Henry W S, Oertel, Joachim, Gaab, Michael R   +2 more
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Risk Factors for Malfunction of Ventriculoperitoneal Shunts Performed by Medical Residents in Children: An Exploratory Study

Brazilian Neurosurgery, 2022
Introduction Ventriculoperitoneal shunts (VPSs) are common neurosurgical procedures, and in educational centers, they are often performed by residents.
Italo Cardoso Teixeira de Oliveira, Douglas Inomata Cardoso da Silva, Jamille Duran Matilde, Fábio Pires Botta, Juliana Fattori Hamamoto, Marla Andréia Garcia de Avila, Lígia Maria Suppo de Souza Rugolo, Marco Antônio Zanini, Pedro Tadao Hamamoto Filho   +8 more
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Hemorrhagic abdominal pseudocyst following ventriculoperitoneal shunt: a case report

BMC Surgery, 2021
Background Abdominal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pseudocyst is an uncommon but important complication of ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunts. While individual articles have reported many cases of abdominal CSF pseudocyst following VP shunts, no case of a ...
Hong-Cai Wang, Yi-Lei Tong, Shi-Wei Li, Mao-Song Chen, Bo-Ding Wang, Hai Chen   +5 more
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Hydrocephalus-history of surgical treatment over the centuries [PDF]

Sanamed, 2012
To trace the history of the treatment of hydrocephalus is to document the parallel development of medicine as a whole; when one reviews the treatment of hydrocephalus, the integral relationship between basic science and therapy is reaffirmed.
Milojević Aleksandar J., Radojčić Branka S., Meljnikov Igor Đ.   +2 more
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Lumboperitoneal shunt insertion without fluoroscopy guidance: Accuracy of placement in a series of 107 procedures [version 2; referees: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

F1000Research, 2017
Background: Lumboperitoneal (LP) shunts were the mainstay of cerebrospinal fluid diversion therapy for idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH).
Sabah Al-Rashed, Haider Kareem, Neeraj Kalra, Linda D'Antona, Mouness Obeidat, Bhavesh Patel, Ahmed Toma   +6 more
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Long-Standing Shunts and Recurrent Cerebrospinal Fluid Pseudocyst Causing Small Bowel Obstruction in an Adult

Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases
We report a rare case of a recurrent cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pseudocyst causing small bowel obstruction in an adult with a long-standing ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt for congenital hydrocephalus.
Laci Turner, Claire Estep, Gabby Westenberger, Hinal Rathi, Nessy Abraham-Philip   +4 more
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Extracranial complications of cerebrospinal fluid shunt function in childhood hydrocephalus [PDF]

, 1980
There were 112 separate hospital evaluations in 84 patients for suspected shunt malfunction: 96 evaluations were of ventriculoperitoneal shunts, 13 were of ventriculoatrial shunts, and three were of both types of shunts.
Murtagh, F R, Poole, C A, Quencer, R M   +2 more
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Long-Term Neuropsychological Sequelae in HIV-Seronegative Cryptococcal Meningoencephalitis Patients with and without Ventriculoperitoneal Shunts: A Cine MRI Study

Behavioural Neurology, 2015
Background. Hydrocephalus in cryptococcal meningoencephalitis is most commonly managed with a ventriculoperitoneal shunt. This study applied cine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to evaluate initial disease severity on long-term cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)
Meng-Hsiang Chen, Cheng-Hsien Lu, Hung-Chen Wang, Hsiu-Ling Chen, Nai-Wen Tsai, Shau-Hsuan Li, Nai-Wen Hsu, Wei-Ming Lin, Chia-Te Kung, Wei-Che Lin   +9 more
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Flow Analysis of Cerebrospinal Fluid inside Catheters used for Hydrocephalus Patients According to Brain MRI Image by Means of CFD [PDF]

Chemical Process Design
(1) The treatment of hydrocephalus is the use of cerebrospinal shunts. These shunts are made up of different parts. One of the most important parts of these shunts is their catheter, which is placed inside the ventricle of the brain in order to drain ...
Saeed Moghadam Deymeh
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