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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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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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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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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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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
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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
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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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