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Effectiveness and safety of ventriculoperitoneal shunt versus lumboperitoneal shunt for communicating hydrocephalus: A systematic review and meta‐analysis with trial sequential analysis

CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics, 2023
The current standard surgical treatment for cerebrospinal fluid diversion is a ventriculoperitoneal shunt (VPS) implantation. Lumboperitoneal shunts (LPS) are an alternative treatment for communicating hydrocephalus.
Yi-Jen Ho, W.-C. Chiang, Hsin-Yi Huang, Shinn-Zong Lin, S. Tsai   +4 more
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Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Surgery for Hydrocephalus: One of the Common Neurosurgical Procedures and Its Related Problems

Cureus, 2023
Objective This study was conducted to assess the outcome in patients with hydrocephalus who underwent ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt surgery. Methods This retrospective study was conducted at the neurosurgery department of a tertiary care hospital.
Farrukh Javeed, Anmol Mohan, Umme Wara, Lal Rehman, Maham Khan   +4 more
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Reconsidering Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Surgery and Postoperative Shunt Valve Pressure Adjustment: Our Approaches Learned From Past Challenges and Failures

Frontiers in Neurology, 2022
Treatment for idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) continues to develop. Although ventriculoperitoneal shunt surgery has a long history and is one of the most established neurosurgeries, in the 1970s, the improvement rate of iNPH triad ...
S. Yamada, M. Ishikawa, Madoka Nakajima, K. Nozaki   +3 more
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Abdominal Complications Related to Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Placement: A Comprehensive Review of Literature

Cureus, 2021
Ever since the shunt device became the gold standard treatment for hydrocephalus, complications due to infections and mechanical problems have increased while lives have been saved.
Leopoldo Mandic Ferreira Furtado, José Aloysio da Costa Val Filho, Rodrigo Moreira Faleiro, José Antônio Lima Vieira, Aieska Kellen Dantas dos Santos   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Early Complications of Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt in Pediatric Patients With Hydrocephalus

Cureus, 2021
Objective Ventriculoperitoneal shunt (VPS) is the most commonly used procedure for the treatment of hydrocephalus (HDC), especially in children. However, this is prone to many complications, and requires repeated surgeries, which as such increases the ...
Bilal I Khan, Saima Hamayun, Usman Haqqani, Khalid Khanzada, Sajjad Ullah, R. Khattak, Nasrullah Zadran, Zohra Bibi, Abdul Wali Khan   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Global Irradiation in Children Treated for Hydrocephalus and Its Change over Time—A Single Institutional Analysis

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, Julia Küppers, Tobias Jhala, Hermann Winicker, Peter Esslinger, Markus Lehner   +5 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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Isolation of Ochrobactrum anthropi from Cerebrospinal Fluid: Insights from a Unique Case in an ICU Setting [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research
Ochrobactrum anthropi (O. anthropi), previously classified as Achromobacter and designated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as group Vd, is known to cause severe infections even in immunocompetent individuals without underlying ...
Mrunali Subhashrao Tarale, Dipika Shaw, Gargi Muday, Radha Kunjalwar, Anjali Patond   +4 more
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Cryptococcal infection of the ventriculoperitoneal shunt in an immunocompetent patient [PDF]

, 2016
Patient: Male, 52 Final Diagnosis: Cryptococcal ventriculoperitoneal shunt infection Symptoms: Confusion • fever • Lethargy Medication: Amphotericin B • Flucytosine Clinical Procedure: Ventriculoperitoneal shunt removal Specialty: Infectious disease ...
Foong, Kap Sum, Lee, Ashley, Vasquez, Gustavo   +2 more
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Spontaneous transanal externalization of ventriculoperitoneal shunt

Journal of Medical and Scientific Research, 2016
Aim of this paper is to report a case of spontaneous externalization of Ventriculoperitoneal shunt tube through anus in an eighteen months female child (k/c/o Dandy-Walker malformation) treated with placement of ventriculoperitoneal shunt for ...
Raghavendra H, Pendyala S, Punit T, Panigraghi MK   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source