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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 +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
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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 +4 more
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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 +4 more
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British Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2018 Abstract: A ventriculoperitoneal shunt (VPS) is the most common type of implanted cerebrospinal fluid shunt system. Nurses may care for patients who have undergone shunt placement or revision. This article discusses the indications for VPS placement in adults, possible complications, and nursing care for patients following a shunt placement ...
Chris, McKinnon, Arthur K, Dalton
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Derivação ventriculoperitoneal em adultos Ventriculoperitoneal shunt in the adults
Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 1973 Apresentação de 18 pacientes adultos submetidos à derivação ventriculoperitoneal com válvula. Em 17 casos havia hipertensão intracraniana. Em 10 casos, com período de seguimento de 2 a 48 meses, os sistemas estão funcionando bem.
J. Jorge Facure, Nubor O. Facure
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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 +3 more
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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 +4 more
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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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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 +3 more
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