We report the case of an eighteen year-old pregnant female with preeclampsia and florid signs and symptoms of posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) in whom intracerebral hemorrhage was evidenced following delivery. Management included blood pressure control, external ventricular drainage and lumboperitoneal shunt. To our knowledge this is the first report of intracranial hemorrhag...

Objective: To demonstrate the advantages of Lumboperitoneal (LP) shunt surgery applied to patients with normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH).Methods: Preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative data 20 who underwent LP for NPH between 01/01/2012 07/04/2022 at Neurosurgery Clinic Ordu University Training Research Hospital were analyzed. The demographic, clinical laboratory as well their medica...

BACKGROUND The authors report a case of fibrous encapsulation of the peritoneal catheter, which caused peritoneal shunt malfunction, and has not previously been researched well as a complication of peritoneal shunts. CASE DESCRIPTION A 69-year-old woman who had undergone a lumboperitoneal (LP) shunt for communicative hydrocephalus following subarachnoid hemorrhage caused by a ruptured aneurys...

We use intraoperative fluoroscopy with contrast medium for correct placement of lumbar catheters in lumboperitoneal (LP) shunts. The patients are in the left or right lateral decubitus position on a radiolucent operating table and a portable C-arm fluoroscope is placed vertically. After confirming the puncture level fluoroscopically, a lumbar puncture is performed. The catheter is introduced in...