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Ventriculoperitoneal shunt complications: A review

Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, 2018
Ventriculoperitoneal shunt (VPS) placement is one of the most commonly performed neurosurgical procedures and is necessary to treat most forms of hydrocephalus.
Michelle Paff, M.D., Daniela Alexandru-Abrams, M.D., Michael Muhonen, M.D., William Loudon, M.D., Ph.D.   +3 more
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Silver-impregnated, antibiotic-impregnated or non-impregnated ventriculoperitoneal shunts to prevent shunt infection: the BASICS three-arm RCT

Health Technology Assessment, 2020
Background: Insertion of a ventriculoperitoneal shunt to treat hydrocephalus is one of the most common neurosurgical procedures worldwide. Shunt infection affects up to 15% of patients, resulting in long hospital stays, multiple surgeries and reduced ...
Conor L Mallucci, Michael D Jenkinson, Elizabeth J Conroy, John C Hartley, Michaela Brown, Tracy Moitt, Joanne Dalton, Tom Kearns, Michael J Griffiths, Giovanna Culeddu, Tom Solomon, Dyfrig Hughes, Carrol Gamble, the BASICS study collaborators   +13 more
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First reported case of abdominal Nocardia pseudocyst in the setting of a ventriculoperitoneal shunt: a case report and review of literature [PDF]

Journal of Medical Case Reports
Introduction Ventriculoperitoneal shunt placement is a common neurosurgical procedure that is used to divert cerebrospinal fluid from the ventricular system to the peritoneal cavity to alleviate hydrocephalus.
Jacob Cliett, Matthew Lee, Fernando Vale, Samuel Macomson   +3 more
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Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Migration [PDF]

Journal of Education and Teaching in Emergency Medicine, 2017
History of present illness: A 40-year-old female presented to our ED with left upper abdominal pain and flank pain. The pain had begun suddenly 2 hours prior when she was reaching into a freezer to get a bag of frozen vegetables.
Justin P Puller, Jonathan T Miller
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Hemorrhage associated with ventriculoperitoneal shunt placement in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage patients on a regimen of dual antiplatelet therapy: a retrospective analysis [PDF]

Journal of Neurosurgery, 2017
OBJECTIVE Intracranial stenting and flow diversion require the use of dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) to prevent in-stent thrombosis. DAPT may significantly increase the risk of hemorrhagic complications in patients who require subsequent surgical ...
Joseph S. Hudson, Yasunori Nagahama, Daichi Nakagawa, Robert M. Starke, Brian J. Dlouhy, James C. Torner, Pascal Jabbour, Lauren Allan, Colin P. Derdeyn, Jeremy D.W. Greenlee, David Hasan   +10 more
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Incidental Detection of Post-cholecystectomy Lemmel Syndrome With Burr Hole Plating and Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt: A Cadaveric Case Report of Quadruple Pathology and Clinico-Pathophysiological Correlation. [PDF]

Cureus
Sanyal S, Affana M, Adegbite AA, Amodu OD, Ayiku VK.   +4 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Successful treatment of vancomycin-resistant enterococcus ventriculitis in a child [PDF]

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2007
Enterococci are an uncommon cause of CNS infection. A 20 month-old boy, diagnosed with hydrocephalus with ventriculoperitoneal shunt and history of lengthy hospitalization and use of wide spectrum antibiotics, was admitted to the pediatric intensive care
Paulo Sérgio Lucas da Silva, Henrique Monteiro Neto, Lílian Márcia Sejas   +2 more
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Upward spontaneous migration of ventriculoperitoneal shunt into the heart: A case report summary [PDF]

Journal of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Research, 2022
A male infant with a history of ventriculoperitoneal (VP) implantation due to congenital hydrocephalus presented with fever and lethargy at the age of 8 month-old.
Shamsi Ghaffari, Khosro Hashemzadeh, Mahmood Samadi, Akbar Molaei, Sahar Sadeghi, Ahmad Jamei Khosroshahi   +5 more
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Effect of Fixed Node Maneuver on Migration of Lumboperitoneal Shunt: A pilot study [PDF]

International Journal of Medical Arts, 2020
Background: Shunt migration after Lumboperitoneal [LP] shunt procedures can occur upward into the spinal subarachnoid space and downward into the abdominal cavity.
Mohamed Mansour, Mohammed Ahmed Alhady, Hatem Elkhouly   +2 more
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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
semanticscholar   +1 more source