TY - JOUR
TI - Percutaneous placement of the peripheral catheter to the subclavian vein
for a VA shunt
AU - Evangelos, Drosos
AU - Dimitrios, Giakoumettis
AU - Georgios, Sfakianos
AU - and Nikolaos, Eleftherakis
AU - Filippos, Papadopoulos
AU - Marios,
AU - Themistocleous
JO - Pan African Medical Journal
PY - 2017
VL - 27
TODO - null
SP - null
PB - AFRICAN FIELD EPIDEMIOLOGY NETWORK-AFENET
SN - null
TODO - 10.11604/pamj.2017.27.42.11374
TODO - Ventriculo-atrial shunt; hydrocephalus; percutaneous; subclavian vein
TODO - Hydrocephalus is a common neurosurgical pathology that affects people of
all ages and especially the pediatric population. It can be very often a
life threatening condition that pediatric neurosurgeons must deal with.
Therefore a number of CSF diversion techniques have been established.
The gold standard treatment currently is the placement of a
ventriculo-peritoneal shunt. Because of hydrocephalus being a lifelong
condition, it is almost in daily practice dealing with cases of shunt
failures for a number of reasons. Herewith we present a 4 year old child
with multiple ventriculo-peritoneal shunt revision surgeries and
ventriculo-atrial failure due to distal catheter malfunction that was
treated with percutaneous placement of the peripheral catheter in the
subclavian vein.
ER -