cerebral shunt

Below are some common routing plans for cerebral shunts.

Hydrocephalus treatment is surgical, generally utilizing various types of cerebral shunts.

Cerebral shunt is the standard treatment for hydrocephalus.

To relieve pressure on his brain, doctors inserted a cerebral shunt, or a tube, to drain the excess fluid.

The cerebral shunt can be used to alleviate or prevent these problems in patients who suffer from hydrocephalus or other related diseases.

Surgical placement of a cerebral shunt:

ShuntCheck is a non-invasive diagnostic medical device which detects flow in the cerebral shunts of hydrocephalus patients.

Individuals with cerebral shunts are at risk of developing shunt nephritis, which frequently produces MGN.

Shunt nephritis is a rare disease of the kidney that can occur in patients being treated for hydrocephalus with a cerebral shunt.

The surgical treatment options for hydrocephalus are, as previously mentioned, implantation of a cerebral shunt and ETV.

The Fortis Foundation flew the poverty-stricken family from their rural village to the hospital in Gurgaon - where a cerebral shunt was carried out.

Similarly, devices in the brain and meninges, such as cerebral shunts, extraventricular drains or Ommaya reservoirs, carry an increased risk of meningitis.

Hydrocephalus (obstructed flow of CSF) may require insertion of a temporary or long-term drainage device, such as a cerebral shunt.

Two main surgical procedures exist in the treatment of IIH: 'optic nerve sheath decompression and fenestration' and cerebral shunt.

Cerebral shunts are commonly used to treat hydrocephalus, the swelling of the brain due to excess buildup of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).

Prominent neurohydrodynamic applications include the development of cerebral shunts, lumbar-peritoneal shunts, intrathecal pumps, neural drug delivery systems and various diagnostic and therapeutic medical devices ranging from clinical equipment to micro-implants.

The Wade-Dahl-Till (WDT) valve is a cerebral shunt developed in 1962 by hydraulic engineer Stanley Wade, author Roald Dahl, and neurosurgeon Kenneth Till.

Empirical therapy may be chosen on the basis of the person's age, whether the infection was preceded by a head injury, whether the person has undergone recent neurosurgery and whether or not a cerebral shunt is present.

After a medically suitable grade of Silastic (silicone and rubber) was found, the device was patented, and John Holter set up a company, Holter-Hausner International, to manufacture the cerebral shunts.

Cerebral shunt: In cases of hydrocephalus and other conditions that cause chronic increased intracranial pressure, a one-way valve is used to drain excess cerebrospinal fluid from the brain and carry it to other parts of the body.

Below is a list of valves that are used in Lumbar-peritoneal shunts (LP shunts) and Cerebral shunts (for a more detailed list of the types of valves see type of valves):

There are various categories of medical shunts and there are two main categories of shunt used in the treatment of chronic increased intracranial pressure due to cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), they are cerebral shunts and lumbar shunts (extracranial shunts).

The ETV procedure is used as an alternative to a cerebral shunt mainly to treat certain forms of noncommunicating obstructive hydrocephalus (such as aqueductal stenosis), but since the ETV was introduced as an accepted treatment modality the range of etiologies for which it is used has grown significantly.