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Prospective randomized trial of emergency portacaval shunt and emergency medical therapy in unselected cirrhotic patients with bleeding varices [PDF]

Hepatology, 1994
Marshall J. Orloff, Richard H. Bell, Mark S. Orloff, W.G.M. Hardison, Gerson A. Greenburg   +4 more
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Endovascular stent implantation as a primary method of treatment for blocked modified Blalock‒Taussig shunt

Annals of Pediatric Cardiology, 2022
Modified Blalock‒Taussig shunt is a commonly performed palliative cardiac surgery. Complications like early or late occlusion have been reported in approximately 10% of patients. Thrombosis, stenosis, or kinking are possible mechanisms that lead to shunt
Praneet Lale, Neeraj Aggarwal, Mridul Agarwal, Reena Khantwal Joshi, Raja Joshi, B S Vivek   +5 more
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Management and Complications of Arnold Chiari Hydrocephalus at Tertiary Health Care Center

The International Journal of Frontier Sciences, 2020
Objective: to investigate the role of CT and MRI in diagnosis of Arnold chiari malformation of hydrocephalus and its treatment with VP shunt along with complications.
Malik Liaqat Ali Jalal, Muhammad Shaukat Farooq, Atta-ur-Rehman Khan, Muhammad Yousaf, Muhammad Rizwan, Saima Faiz   +5 more
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Shunt Infection

Archives of Pediatric Neurosurgery, 2021
The improvement in the management of hydrocephalus comes from the following: early diagnosis, radiological investigation, better knowledge of mechanisms, quality of material, surgical technique of implantation, less shunt complications (e.g.infections ...
Maurice Choux
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Long-term outcomes of Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Surgery in Patients with Hydrocephalus

Pakistan BioMedical Journal, 2022
For the treatment of hydrocephalus, VP shunt surgery is considered the most appropriate method of treatment, but this treatment has a number of complications, it needs to be replaced after the failure of the previous shunt.
N. Haq, Ina B. Shah, Musa Khan
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Latent Pulmonary Vascular Disease May Alter the Response to Therapeutic Atrial Shunt Device in Heart Failure

Circulation, 2022
Background: In REDUCE LAP-HF II (A Study to Evaluate the Corvia Medical, Inc IASD System II to Reduce Elevated Left Atrial Pressure in Patients With Heart Failure), implantation of an atrial shunt device did not provide overall clinical benefit for ...
B. Borlaug, John Blair, M. Bergmann, H. Bugger, D. Burkhoff, L. Bruch, D. Celermajer, B. Claggett, J. Cleland, D. Cutlip, I. Dauber, J. Eicher, Qi Gao, T. Gorter, F. Gustafsson, C. Hayward, J. van der Heyden, G. Hasenfuss, S. Hummel, D. Kaye, J. Komtebedde, J. Massaro, J. Mazurek, S. McKenzie, S. Mehta, M. Petrie, M. Post, Ajith Nair, A. Rieth, F. Silvestry, S. Solomon, J. Trochu, D. V. van Veldhuisen, R. Westenfeld, M. Leon, Sanjiv J. Shah   +35 more
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Association of Atrial Septal Aneurysm and Shunt Size With Stroke Recurrence and Benefit From Patent Foramen Ovale Closure.

JAMA Neurology, 2022
Importance The Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO)-Associated Stroke Causal Likelihood classification system combines information regarding noncardiac patient features (vascular risk factors, infarct topography) and PFO features (shunt size and presence of atrial
J. Mas, J. Saver, S. Kasner, J. Nelson, J. Carroll, G. Chatellier, G. Derumeaux, A. Furlan, H. Herrmann, P. Jüni, Jong S. Kim, B. Koethe, P. Lee, Bénédicte Lefebvre, H. Mattle, B. Meier, M. Reisman, R. Smalling, L. Søndergaard, Jae-Kwan Song, D. Thaler, D. Kent   +21 more
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A high-resolution real-time quantification of astrocyte cytokine secretion under shear stress for investigating hydrocephalus shunt failure

Communications Biology, 2021
It has been hypothesized that physiological shear forces acting on medical devices implanted in the brain significantly accelerate the rate to device failure in patients with chronically indwelling neuroprosthetics.
Fatemeh Khodadadei, Allen P. Liu, Carolyn A. Harris   +2 more
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Prospective Study Comparing Outcome following Complete Polypropylene Suture Ligation versus Partial Thin Film Band Attenuation of Congenital Portosystemic Shunts in Dogs

Veterinary Sciences, 2023
The main objective was to conduct a prospective study reporting the outcome for dogs with an extrahepatic congenital portosystemic shunt (CPSS) treated with a ‘complete ligation where possible’ philosophy.
Victoria Lipscomb, Chloe Cassie, Ben Ritchie, Stephen Greenhalgh, Mickey Tivers   +4 more
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First Report of Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Infection due to Cyberlindnera fabianii. [PDF]

, 2015
Fungal infections in the central nervous system (CNS) are associated with significant morbidity and death. Transient fungemia in immunocompetent patients without any other risk factors for fungemia has been suggested as a possible mechanism that may lead
Baghdadi, Jonathan, Hemarajata, Peera, Humphries, Romney, Kelesidis, Theodoros   +3 more
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