Background and aim: Shunt tap decreases ICP & improves cerebral perfusion & should be detected by cerebral rSO 2. Determine cerebral rSO 2 reliability during shunt tap. Method: Left & right cerebral ...

A ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt is a narrow plastic tube that drains excess cerebrospinal fluid into your abdomen (belly). Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) protects your brain by acting as a shock absorber ...

The Norwood procedure with a modified Blalock–Taussig (MBT) shunt, the first palliative stage for single-ventricle lesions with systemic outflow obstruction, is associated with high mortality. The ...

A ventriculoperitoneal shunt is a medical device that doctors use to treat a brain condition called hydrocephalus. Hydrocephalus is a condition that causes fluid to build up on the brain, which ...

In a study of children with brain shunts, a new investigational biomarker outperformed the current 'gold standard' test for detecting bacterial infections in the shunts. The biomarker has already ...

Researcher Stephanie TerMaath has always had a head for physics. As the University of Tennessee's Zeanah Faculty Fellow, she's involved in projects including developing composite patches for repairing ...

DURING the past fifteen years an increasing number of portasystemic shunts have been performed at the Lahey Clinic. Some patients did not fit into the accepted criteria for operability 1–7; yet a ...

Dear Dr. Roach: About two years ago, my husband, who will turn 79 in June, developed a balance/gait problem. This has affected so many of his interests: golf, hiking, photography and some social ...

At 4 months old, Haley Vogeler received what her mother believed would be her first and only surgical procedure as a child. Nine years and six surgical procedures later, Cheyanna Vogeler said she ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - In a study of children with brain shunts at Children's of Alabama, a University of Alabama at Birmingham investigational biomarker outperformed the current "gold standard" test for ...