Introduction: Infection is the most common complication encountered after ventriculoperitoneal shunt. The AIMS of this study to evaluate effectiveness antibiotic therapy with protocol in prevention post-operative infections shunt our city. Patients and methods: We retrospectively 20 hydrocephalus cases one year. They were operated through classic VP Shunt insertion technique adopted for implant...

a 14 years old boy who had a ventriculo-peritoneal shunt since the age of 5 months, was hospitalized due to headaches, nausea, vomiting and abdominal distension. in abdominal ct and sonographic evaluation, pancreatic pseudocyst or mesentric cyst were suspected. evaluation of the shunt by radionuclide, however, was diagnostic and revealed a pseudocyst at the peritoneal end of the shunt. the pati...

1. Episodic (precipitant-induced) encephalopathy, commonly seen in the hospital setting, where a superimposed event is a key factor. 2. Persistent (chronic) encephalopathy, seen with extensive portal–systemic shunts and after portocaval shunt surgery or placement of transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS). 3. Minimal (subclinical) encephalopathy reflects alterations in cognitive fu...

A 6-year-old boy had undergone ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt for acute hydrocephalus because of a brain tumor at the age of 11 months, and presented with vomiting and somnolence after the shunt malfunctioned 6 days after VP shunt reconstruction, during which the right external jugular vein was injured during the tunneling process and the peritoneal catheter was not fixed to the peritoneum wit...

infections of the cerebrospinal shunts and other neurosurgical structures are not uncommon in the clinical practice. these infections are mostly clinical emergencies carrying negative prognostic impacts on the patients as well as spending healthcare resources. the low pathogenicity nature of some implicated pathogens results in minimal physical signs that may complicate the diagnosis and mislea...

Shunt infection is the most common and dreaded complication in patients with hydrocephalus. For the purpose of reducing the high morbidity and mortality, how to prevent is a vital step. A retrospective analysis of 384 CSF cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) shunt procedures was undertaken from 2006 to 2010 in our neurosurgery department. Infection diagnosis was established by subjecting the CSF to bioche...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) for medically intractable Parkinson's disease (PD) is well established, but carries the inconveniences of frame-based neurosurgery. Previous reports have demonstrated that ventricular shunt placement and some functional procedures can be accurately performed using frameless stereotaxy. We present a report indicating that staged deep brain electrode placement can be ...

This report presents a rare complication of ventriculoperitoneal shunt, delayed development of brain abscess and foreign body granuloma formation adjacent to the intraventricular catheter. Both the complications occurring in the same patient is unusual.

This study investigated the characteristics of hearing loss in children with ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunted hydrocephalus. Twelve hydrocephalic children with patent VP shunts participated. The etiology of the hydrocephalus was either intraventricular hemorrhage or spina bifida. Audiometric examination included pure-tone air conduction thresholds, tympanometry, contralateral and ipsilateral a...