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Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2023 A limiting factor in using vascular conduits in the pediatric/newborn population is their inability to grow. Many complex congenital heart diseases require palliative surgery, but using rigid and nonexpandable conduits does not allow the structures to ...
Ermanno Bellanti +4 more
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Ventriculoperitoneal shunt presenting as umbilical CSF fistula
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2020 An umbilical cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) fistula following a ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt is an extremely rare complication. The shunt can get blocked and infected and present as purulent umbilical discharge.
Meenakshi Yeola (Pate), Kushagra Singh
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Children, 2022 Radiation exposure early in life is associated with greater incidences of malignancy. Our goal was to quantify radiation exposure in shunt-treated hydrocephalus patients and study changes in the diagnostic modalities used.
Lukas Schabl +5 more
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CVIR EndovascularBackground Stenosis resulting in dysfunctional dialysis access may occur simultaneously on the anastomotic and central venous side. The purpose of this study was to retrospectively evaluate the feasibility of a single sheath inverse technique using the ...
Tetsuya Hasegawa +4 more
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Lung India, 2021 Meandering pulmonary vein (MPV) is a rare entity that can be associated with an additional cardiac and pulmonary venous variations, including left-to-right shunts.
Dev Arwikar +5 more
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Hemodynamic evaluation of a new pulsatile flow generation method in cardiopulmonary bypass system
Вестник трансплантологии и искусственных органов, 2019 This paper proposes a new method of generating pulsatile flow using non-pulsating pumps (NPP) without modulating the rotation speed of the pump rotor. At the initial stage, this method was proposed for NPP-based cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) systems.
A. S. Buchnev +3 more
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Hydrocephalus Shunting in Supratentorial Glioblastoma: Functional Outcomes and Management
Frontiers in Oncology, 2022 BackgroundGlioblastoma is the most common and the most challenging to treat adult primary central nervous system tumor. Although modern management strategies modestly improved the overall survival, the prognosis remains dismal associated with poor life ...
Amir El Rahal +11 more
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Critical Care Clinics, 1996 Unsuspected intracardiac shunts can be a cause of acute deterioration in critically ill patients. Shunts can be acquired or congenital conditions that become symptomatic only with changed physiologic conditions. Transesophageal echocardiography is an excellent tool for the diagnosis of intracardiac shunts.
A, Nacht, I, Kronzon
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Tzu Chi Medical Journal, 2022 Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH), albeit characterized by gait impairment, cognitive decline, and urinary incontinence, in clinical diagnosis is poorly defined and is usually coexistent with other neurodegenerative diseases.
Pao-Hui Tseng +5 more
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Adult-onset neurocutaneous melanosis with Dandy–Walker malformation
Formosan Journal of Surgery, 2018 Neurocutaneous melanosis (NCM) is characterized by diffuse or focal proliferation of melanin-producing cells over the skin or leptomeninges. Even without malignant transformation, the prognosis is poor after symptomatic progression of NCM, resulting from
Ting-Wei Chang +3 more
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