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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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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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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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Systematic follow-ups were not associated with reduced acute ventriculoperitoneal shunt dysfunction in infancy. [PDF]

Acta Paediatr
Abstract Aim Hydrocephalus surgery with a ventriculoperitoneal shunt is a life‐saving treatment, but it has been associated with a high risk of dysfunction and complications. We investigated whether infants who received a ventriculoperitoneal shunt below 12 months of age had a reduced risk of acute shunt dysfunction if they were included in a ...
Liminga G, Ahlbäck B, Hamdeh SA, Nilsson P, Ehrstedt C.   +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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Chronic Bilateral Calcified Subdural Empyema: An Unusual Complication of a Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Neurosurgery, 2020
Background and Importance: Subdural empyema is a rare complication of ventriculoperitoneal shunts. The ventriculoperitoneal shunt is a common technique used in the treatment of hydrocephalus.
Abdoulaye Diop, Mohameth Faye, Roger Ilunga Mulumba, Momar Codé Ba, Seydou Boubacar Badiane   +4 more
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Uncommon complications of ventriculoperitoneal shunt surgery: review of four cases and literature review

Egyptian Journal of Neurosurgery, 2020
Background Ventriculoperitoneal shunt is one of the most popular cerebrospinal fluid diversion procedures worldwide. Complications are common, but uncommon complications are rarely reported in the literature making a standardized guideline on management ...
Aliyu Muhammad Koko, Nasiru Jinjiri Ismail, Ali Lasseini, Sahabi M. Saddiku   +3 more
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