Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt
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Subject Areas on Research
- A1-A2 interposition grafting for surgical treatment of a giant "unclippable" A1 segment aneurysm.
- Challenges in Surgical Care of High Risk Newborns.
- Clinical outcome of cerebrospinal fluid shunting for communicating hydrocephalus in mucopolysaccharidoses I, II, and III: a retrospective analysis of 13 patients.
- Comparison of outcomes between patients with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus who received a primary versus a salvage shunt.
- Comparison of revision rates following endoscopically versus nonendoscopically placed ventricular shunt catheters.
- Comparison of techniques for ventriculoperitoneal shunting in 523 patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage.
- Comparison of total versus partial revision of initial ventriculoperitoneal shunt failures.
- Constipation as a reversible cause of ventriculoperitoneal shunt failure. Report of two cases.
- Cost effectiveness of a short-term pediatric neurosurgical brigade to Guatemala.
- Costs and benefits of neurosurgical intervention for infant hydrocephalus in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Cryptococcal ventricular-peritoneal shunt infection: clinical and epidemiological evaluation of two closely associated cases.
- Device-related infections in children.
- Diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging of the optic nerves in pediatric hydrocephalus.
- Distal ventriculoperitoneal shunt failure secondary to Clostridium difficile colitis.
- Does CT wand guidance improve shunt placement in patients with hydrocephalus?
- Fabrication and testing of a device capable of reducing the incidence of ventricular shunt promoted metastasis.
- Failure of cerebrospinal fluid shunts: part II: overdrainage, loculation, and abdominal complications.
- Functional gait outcomes for idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus after primary endoscopic third ventriculostomy.
- Fungal infection of a ventriculoperitoneal shunt: histoplasmosis diagnosis and treatment.
- Healthcare Economics of Hydrocephalus After Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage in the United States.
- Hydrocephalus as a possible additional contributor to cognitive outcome in survivors of pediatric medulloblastoma.
- Image Guidance for Ventricular Shunt Surgery: An Analysis of Ventricular Size and Proximal Revision Rates.
- Intraventricular ganglioglioma.
- Outcomes and Experience with Lumbopleural Shunts in the Management of Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension.
- Perioperative management of a neurosurgical patient requiring antiplatelet therapy.
- Predictive value of cerebrospinal fluid parameters in neonates with intraventricular drainage devices.
- Predictors of Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Revision in Patients with Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus.
- Predictors of positive cerebrospinal fluid cultures in infants with bacteremia.
- Risk factors for pediatric ventriculoperitoneal shunt infection and predictors of infectious pathogens.
- Shunt fracture following correction of spinal deformity. Case illustration.
- Surgical Correction of an Extensive Skull Base Defect as a Result of Pneumocele.
- Swelling Superimposed on Atrophy Masks Optic Nerve Pathology.
- Upward transtentorial herniation, hydrocephalus, and cerebellar edema in hypertensive encephalopathy.
- Ventriculoatrial versus ventriculoperitoneal shunt complications in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus.
- Ventriculoperitoneal shunt failure causing myelopathy in a patient with bilateral jugular vein occlusion. Case report.
- Ventriculoperitoneal shunt placement for POEMS syndrome.
- Ventriculosubgaleal shunting--a strategy to reduce the incidence of shunt revisions and slit ventricles: an institutional experience and review of the literature.