Τίτλος:
Percutaneous placement of the peripheral catheter to the subclavian vein
for a VA shunt
Γλώσσες Τεκμηρίου:
Αγγλικά
Περίληψη:
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.
Συγγραφείς:
Evangelos, Drosos
Dimitrios, Giakoumettis
Georgios, Sfakianos
and Nikolaos, Eleftherakis
Filippos, Papadopoulos
Marios,
Themistocleous
Περιοδικό:
Pan African Medical Journal
Εκδότης:
AFRICAN FIELD EPIDEMIOLOGY NETWORK-AFENET
Λέξεις-κλειδιά:
Ventriculo-atrial shunt; hydrocephalus; percutaneous; subclavian vein
DOI:
10.11604/pamj.2017.27.42.11374
