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Medication overuse as a cause of chronic headache in shunted hydrocephalus patients

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 2010
To highlight the group of hydrocephalus patients known to have a long history of shunt revisions and refractory chronic headache. When a shunt in perfect working order has no effect on headache, other causes of headache should be investigated. In this paper, patients with medication overuse headache are identified and the positive effect of medication ...
Willer, Lasse, Jensen, R H, Juhler, M
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Lumboperitoneal shunt in a patient with Behçet’s disease with medically refractory intracranial hypertension

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, 2011
A 21-year-old male presented with severe throbbing headache, nausea, vomiting and progressive visual loss. Clinical examination revealed bilateral papilledema and left abducens nerve palsy. MRI showed findings consistent with dural sinus thrombosis. Combinging the clinical findings, MRI and a positive pathergy test, the patient was diagnosed with dural
Dogan, Ebru Apaydin, Ozturk, Banu Turgut, Mutluer, Muzaffer, Yildiz, Gulce Unal, Genc, Emine, Yuruten, Betigul, Kocaogullar, Yalcin   +6 more
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Medical malpractice and cerebrospinal fluid shunts: An analysis of 36 cases

Medico-Legal Journal
Many physicians, particularly neurosurgeons, face malpractice claims during their career. The aim of this paper is to identify which factors increase the risk of litigation and influence legal outcomes relating to cerebrospinal fluid shunt management.
Isabella L Pecorari, Vijay Agarwal
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LSM-YOLO: A Compact and Effective ROI Detector for Medical Detection

arXiv.org
In existing medical Region of Interest (ROI) detection, there lacks an algorithm that can simultaneously satisfy both real-time performance and accuracy, not meeting the growing demand for automatic detection in medicine.
Zhongwen Yu, Qiu Guan, Jianmin Yang, Zhiqiang Yang, Qianwei Zhou, Yang Chen, Feng Chen   +6 more
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Surgical and medical treatment outcomes for dogs with congenital portosystemic shunt

Advances in Small Animal Medicine and Surgery, 2015
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Medication overuse headache – An under-diagnosed problem in shunted idiopathic intracranial hypertension patients

British Journal of Neurosurgery, 2014
Management of headache in a subgroup of shunted idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) patients is a well- described and difficult task. We present our series of shunted IIH patients with medication overuse headache (MOH) and discuss the role of careful pain management in this group of patients.A retrospective review of shunted IIH patients with ...
Ruth-Mary, deSouza, Ahmed, Toma, Laurence, Watkins   +2 more
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Emergency distal splenorenal shunt for medically uncontrollable variceal haemorrhage.

Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie, 1988
Emergency distal splenorenal shunt was prospectively carried out on 14 patients presenting with active bleeding from esophagogastric varices which was not controllable by medical treatment. Patients were composed of nine males and five females. Age ranged from 34 to 76 years with an average of 56.2.
N, Nagasue, Y, Ogawa, H, Yukaya, R, Tamada, Y, Chang, T, Nakamura   +5 more
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Medical and socioeconomic predictors of quality of life in myelomeningocele patients with shunted hydrocephalus

Child's Nervous System, 2017
Children with myelomeningocele (MMC) often develop hydrocephalus, and the combination of these conditions can lead to psychosocial, cognitive, and physical health issues that decrease their health-related quality of life (HRQOL). The goal of the present study was to understand the QOL in patients with MMC and shunted hydrocephalus.Data from the Toronto
Brij S, Karmur, Abhaya V, Kulkarni
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[Porto-systemic shunts in children: Schneider Children's Medical Center experience].

Harefuah, 2002
Portal hypertension in the absence of liver disease in children remains a therapeutic challenge. Despite successful control of variceal bleeding in most children, the risk of massive GI bleeding and mechanical disturbance of a huge spleen associated with hypersplenism exists throughout life. Surgical shunt between the portal and systemic venous systems
Eytan, Mor, Nati, Bar-Nathan, Riki, Shapira, Mila, Katchko, Gabriel, Dinari   +4 more
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Medical and surgical options for portosystemic shunts

2021
Gerard Mclauchlan, Chris Shales
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