... with a ventricular shunt, yet approximately 30% of patients experience shunt failure within the first year after surgery. As a result, the objective of the present study was to validate a predictive model of pediatric shunt complications with data retrieved from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP...

... of results still remaining a concern. Myelomeningocele Postnatal Prenatal Hydrocephalus Chiari II Shunt Ambulation The standard management of myelomeningocele has traditionally been postnatal closure within several days of birth. A study of 29 infants who underwent in utero closure...

...Ravi Thakker; Aaron Mohanty Background/Aims: Multiple lower cranial nerve paresis occurring after placement of a fourth ventricle shunt for an isolated fourth ventricle is an uncommon complication in the postoperative period. Of the various etiologies, direct brain stem injury by the catheter...

... underwent a shunt surgery. Potentially, this patient could have undergone an endoscopic fenestration of the lamina terminalis; however, the parents opted to undergo a shunt. Case 1 is shown in Figure 1 . Fig. 1. Case 1. a Sagittal T2 FRFSE at the midline shows ballooning of the third ventricular...

... or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Hydrocephalus Shunt Spontaneous resolution Ventriculostomy Novel Insights from Clinical Practice Pediatr Neurosurg 2018;53:188 192 DOI: 10.1159/000487087 Received: August 25, 2017...

...Krystal L. Tomei Over the past few centuries, there have been many advances in shunt technology, from the evolution of shunt tubing materials, to advances in valves for regulating the flow of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Additional medical advances have enabled the antibiotic impregnation...

... acute hydrocephalus and mild diffuse leptomeningeal enhancement without an identifiable primary lesion. Methods: The hydrocephalus was managed with a ventriculostomy - later replaced by a ventriculoperitoneal shunt after ruling out infection. A dura mater biopsy obtained prior to shunt insertion...

...Anthony L. Petraglia; Michael J. Moravan; Vassilios G. Dimopoulos; Howard J. Silberstein Background/Aims: Slit ventricles and multiple episodes of shunt failure are problematic in many infants and preterm neonates shunted for hydrocephalus. We utilized ventriculosubgaleal (VSG) shunting...

...Jude Kennedy C. Emejulu; Jideofor O. Ugwu Background: Over the years, different approaches to the treatment of hydrocephalus have evolved across all age groups; however, ventriculoperitoneal shunting (VPS) remains the most widely used procedure, albeit with many complications. Aims: The aim of our...

... of 23 patients with MMC admitted and prospectively followed, who underwent surgery immediately after birth – ‘at time zero’ (group II). Results: The preoperative rupture of the MMC occurred more frequently in group I (67 vs. 39%, p < 0.05). The need for ventriculoperitoneal shunt was 84% in group I...

... at Kangnam St. Mary’s Hospital. Results: The initial surgery in 4 patients involved a craniotomy with the excision of the cyst wall and fenestration into the basal cisterns. Three of the four patients needed additional procedures, such as cyst-peritoneal or subdural-peritoneal shunting due to failure of cyst...

...John A. Grant; David G. McLone A catheter is described for use in severe shunt infection where the white blood cell count in the CSF exceeds 1,000 cells/mm 3 . The catheter allows for simultaneous irrigation and drainage of the ventricular system. Cerebrospinal fluid Hydrocephalus Shunt...

...N. Buxton; J. Punt A choroid plexus papilloma of the lateral ventricle presenting in early infancy and producing symptoms purely by secretion of cerebrospinal fluid with formation of a large cyst is presented. Initial conservative management by cyst-peritoneal shunt was followed by late recurrence...

.... The organisms most frequently cultured from the peritoneum are those of intestinal flora; however, there are cases which have all the features of SBP, but remain culture negative. This article discusses 7 cases of SBP in patients with ventriculoperitoneal shunts; a combination which has previously not been...

...Jack McCallum Twenty-six patients have had cranio-peritoneal shunts placed using a new introducer allowing the combination of frameless stereotaxy and neuroendoscopy and placement of a one-piece shunt. Operating times have been acceptable, complication rates have been low, and shunt placement has...

... shunt surgery 6–8 weeks after kaolin induction into the cisterna magna. In 19 animals, no shunt was implanted; they served as sham controls. These and 10 normal animals were subjected to transmission electron microscopic study or measurement of white matter water content. The regions studied were...

...Charles P. Bondurant; David F. Jimenez The epidemiology of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) shunting in the United States is not well known; however, with recent national surveys, the prevalence, incidence, and cost of these procedures can be estimated. The prevalence of CSF shunts in the United States...

... will require a permanent shunt. We have retrospectively reviewed a group of children with medulloblastoma not shunted preoperatively, and have identified several characteristics which are associated with a requirement for permanent shunt. We studied 42 patients and found that 17 patients (40%) required...

...Paul Steinbok; Michael Boyd; Olof Flodmark; Douglas Cochrane The requirements for radiographic imaging of the ventricles after a ventricular shunt procedure are not well defined. At British Columbia’s Children’s Hospital, the standard protocol included an ultrasound examination or CT scan at 6-8...

... in the Birmingham Children’s Hospital between 1974 and 1978. In these patients, 33 (16.4%) of a total of 201 shunt revision procedures and 5 of the 8 subtemporal decompressions for slit ventricle syndrome were performed after the age of 16 years. Similarly, 7 shunt infections occurred in this age group. Two...