Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • An observational pilot study of CSF diversion in subarachnoid haemorrhage. 
  • Are shunt series and shunt patency studies useful in patients with shunted idiopathic intracranial hypertension in the emergency department? 
  • Augmentation cystoplasty complicated by postoperative ventriculoperitoneal shunt infection. 
  • Biomaterials for the central nervous system. 
  • Catheter shunts for fetal hydronephrosis and hydrocephalus. Report of the International Fetal Surgery Registry. 
  • Cerebellopontine angle craniopharyngioma: case report and literature review. 
  • Cerebrospinal fluid shunt survival and etiology of failures: a seven-year institutional experience. 
  • Clinical outcomes after ventriculoatrial shunting for idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus. 
  • Clinical outcomes of temporary shunting for infants with cerebral pseudomeningocele. 
  • Clinical utility of broth cultures of cerebrospinal fluid from patients at risk for shunt infections. 
  • Co-morbidities Associated With Early Mortality in Adults With Spina Bifida. 
  • Continuous and intermittent CSF diversion after subarachnoid hemorrhage: a pilot study. 
  • Continuous cerebral spinal fluid drainage associated with complications in patients admitted with subarachnoid hemorrhage. 
  • Correction of congenital hydrocephalus in utero II: Efficacy of in utero shunting. 
  • Direct heart shunt placement for CSF diversion: technical note. 
  • Endovascular placement of a ventriculoatrial shunt. Technical note. 
  • Evaluation and treatment of patients with suspected normal pressure hydrocephalus on long-term warfarin anticoagulation therapy. 
  • Failure of cerebrospinal fluid shunts: part I: Obstruction and mechanical failure. 
  • Failure of cerebrospinal fluid shunts: part II: overdrainage, loculation, and abdominal complications. 
  • Foreign body reaction to rubber Torkildsen catheters: a report of two cases. 
  • Headache in guillain-barre syndrome. 
  • Integrating Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunt Quality Checks into the World Health Organization's Safe Surgery Checklist: A Pilot Study. 
  • Large postnatally acquired porencephalic cysts: unexpected developmental outcomes. 
  • Lower rates of symptom recurrence and surgical revision after primary compared with secondary endoscopic third ventriculostomy for obstructive hydrocephalus secondary to aqueductal stenosis in adults. 
  • Lumboatrial shunt in a patient with Crouzon syndrome complicated by pseudotumor cerebri. 
  • Moraxella catarrhalis ventriculitis in a child with hydrocephalus and an external ventricular drain. 
  • Neurodevelopmental outcome of survivors with posthemorrhagic hydrocephalus following Grade II neonatal intraventricular hemorrhage. 
  • Perspective: surgical options for adult syringomyelia. 
  • Predictors of admission and shunt revision during emergency department visits for shunt-treated adult patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension. 
  • Prenatal surgery for myelomeningocele and the need for cerebrospinal fluid shunt placement. 
  • Propionibacterium shunt nephritis in two adolescents with medulloblastoma. 
  • Relative risks of ventriculostomy infection and morbidity. 
  • Shortened platelet lifespan in patients with hydrocephalus and ventriculojugular shunts: results of preliminary attempts at correction. 
  • Shunt freedom and clinical resolution of idiopathic intracranial hypertension after bariatric surgery in the pediatric population: report of 3 cases. 
  • Single-stage bilateral choroid plexectomy for choroid plexus papilloma in a patient presenting with high cerebrospinal fluid output. 
  • Staphylococcus aureus meningitis: review of 28 cases. 
  • Successful treatment of cryptococcal ventriculoatrial shunt infection with systemic therapy alone. 
  • Successful ventricle to direct heart shunt placement as a salvage cerebrospinal fluid diversion technique. Case report. 
  • Sylvian aqueduct syndrome as a sign of acute obstructive hydrocephalus in children. 
  • Systemic Torulopsis glabrata infection in a neonate. 
  • Temporary Lumbar Drain as Treatment for Pediatric Fulminant Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension. 
  • The Utility of Computed Tomography in Shunted Patients with Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension Presenting to the Emergency Department. 
  • The gravitational shunt: an alternative approach to cerebrospinal fluid shunting. 
  • Two cases of "shunt nephritis". 
  • Using a 2-variable method in radionuclide shuntography to predict shunt patency. 
  • Vancomycin cerebrospinal fluid pharmacokinetics in children with cerebral ventricular shunt infections. 
  • Ventriculosubgaleal shunting--a strategy to reduce the incidence of shunt revisions and slit ventricles: an institutional experience and review of the literature. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Cohen-Wolkowiez, Michael, Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases
  • Gottfried, Oren N, Professor of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery
  • Muh, Carrie Rebecca, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery
  • Sampson, John Howard, Robert H., M.D. and Gloria Wilkins Professor of Neurosurgery, in the School of Medicine, Immunology