Results 31 to 40 of about 20,777 (263)

Implant Prophylaxis: The Next Best Practice Toward Asepsis in Spine Surgery. [PDF]

, 2018
Study designA literature review.ObjectivesAn evaluation of the contaminants prevalent on implants used for surgery and the aseptic methods being employed against them.MethodsPubMed was searched for articles published between 2000 and 2017 for studies ...
Agarwal, Aakash, Agarwal, Anand, Anand, Neel, Garfin, Steve R, Goel, Vijay K, Schultz, Christian, Wang, Jeffrey C   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Scrotal migration of ventriculoperitoneal shunts [PDF]

American Journal of Roentgenology, 1983
Ventriculoperitoneal diversion of cerebrospinal fluid in infants and children with hydrocephalus has become the procedure of choice over the last 15 years. It has replaced ventriculoatrial shunts, resulting in a marked decrease in the complication rate after such procedures.
MJ Crofford, D Balsam
openaire   +3 more sources

Evaluating the incidence and risk factors for ventriculoperitoneal shunt sepsis at Dr George Mukhari Academic hospital in Pretoria, South Africa

Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery
Introduction: Patients with increased pressure hydrocephalus are a common referral to the Department of Neurosurgery at our institution. Materials and methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study performed by consecutively enrolling 335 subjects who ...
Andries Pretorius, Adrian Kelly, Patrick Lekgwara   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy for Acute Calcular Cholecystitis in a Patient with Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt: A Case Report and Literature Review

Case Reports in Surgery, 2015
Management of patients who have ventriculoperitoneal shunt presenting with acute calcular cholecystitis has remained a clinical challenge. In this paper, the hospital course and the follow-up of a patient presenting with acute calcular cholecystitis and ...
Abdullah A. Albarrak, Sami Khairy, Alzahrani Mohammed Ahmed   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Early ventriculoperitoneal shunt infection

Infection, 2016
Sin financiación 2.468 JCR (2016) Q3, 44/84 Infectious Diseases ...
Pintor Holguín, Emilio, Gutiérrez, María José, Gargantilla Madera, Pedro, Herreros Ruiz Valdepeñas, Benjamín   +3 more
openaire   +5 more sources

Randomized trial of shunt infection rates comparing intraoperative Vancomycin versus Gentamicin in ventriculoperitoneal shunt system preparation

Egyptian Journal of Neurosurgery, 2023
Background Ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt is the mainstay of surgical management of patients with hydrocephalus. The insertion of ventriculoperitoneal shunt may be accompanied by many potentially life-threatening complications including shunt infection.
Surajudeen A. Olomo, Joseph O. Obande, Gyang M. Bot, Peter O. Binitie   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A ventriculoperitoneal shunt incidentally found in the stomach

Radiology Case Reports, 2018
We report a case of a ventriculoperitoneal shunt incidentally found within the stomach while the patient was undergoing a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube placement.
Dan Isaac Cohen-Addad, MD, Kevin Hewitt, MD, Donnie Bell, MD   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Recurrent giant abdominal cerebrospinal fluid pseudo cyst: A case report and review of literature

Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports, 2022
Cerebrospinal fluid pseudo cyst is a rare complication of ventriculoperitoneal shunt procedure for hydrocephalus. It is a collection of fluid that accumulate around the tip of the distal catheter and surrounded by a wall of fibrous tissue lacking a true ...
Ram Jeewan Singh, Bijay Kumar Suman, Shreyas Dudhani, Amit Kumar Sinha, Bindey Kumar   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fracture into the Abdominal Cavity and the Presence of A Retroauricular Pseudocyst Are Diagnostic of A Partial Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Dysfunction

Acta Medica Bulgarica
Ventriculoperitoneal shunt malfunction is frequently observed, with the ventriculoperitoneal shunt fracture being a prevalent etiology. The occurrence of ventriculoperitoneal shunt malfunction is approximately 40% in the first year after implantation and
Bal’afif F., Wibowo O., Nazwar T. A., Wardhana D. W., Mustofa M.   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Huge abdominal cerebrospinal fluid pseudocyst following ventriculoperitoneal shunt: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2019
Introduction Abdominal pseudocysts comprising cerebrospinal fluid are an uncommon but significant complication in patients with ventriculoperitoneal shunt.
Yasuhiro Koide, Takaaki Osako, Masahiro Kameda, Hiromi Ihoriya, Hirotsugu Yamamoto, Noritomo Fujisaki, Toshiyuki Aokage, Tetsuya Yumoto, Isao Date, Hiromichi Naito, Atsunori Nakao   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source