Vp Shunt Gas And Bowel Issues

Am surg 32601 603 1966 dean df keller ib.

Vp shunt gas and bowel issues. Displacement of the bowel gas pattern on abdominal films and by absence of shifting dullness 2. The catheter may gravitate transmurally into the bowel lumen over a prolonged period while being surrounded by fibrous encasement at the enterotomy without subsequent peritoneal infection. Although obstruction and infection are the most common causes of shunt malfunction other complications can occur as well including bowel perforation pseudocyst formation and over draining which can lead to subdural hematoma formation.

I had a shunt put in 31 years ago i am now 42. The occurrance of a viscus perforation by the abdominal portion of a vp shunt is often a prolonged clinical phenomenon which usually does not lead to acute peritonitis. These complications occur more frequently in the third trimester likely secondary to the increasing size of the gravid uterus and its effect on intra abdominal pressure 10 11 19 20 26 30 33.

Perforation of the bowel complicating peritoneal shunt for hydrocephalus. I have always had bowel issues as long as i can remember constipation same as you explain with your child. And radiographic studies this problems should be familiar for radiologist to make a correct diagnosis to give a correct treatment.

Recognize the presence of ventriculoperitoneal vp shunt to manage the. Stomach swelling til i thnk it will pop and then vomiting to rid myself of the pain. A rare complication of ventriculoperitoneal shunt.

A complica tion of a ventriculoperitoneal shunt. Obstruction is the most common cause of vp shunt malfunction requiring surgical shunt revision and may occur at either the proximal or the distal end 2 4 7 17 18 within the abdomen functional shunt occlusion can occur with csf pseudocyst formation or if the catheter becomes walled off in a small cavity likely the result of infection or inflammation which prevents the free egress of. J pediatr 83 823 824 1973 wilson cb bertan v.

I am now having huge gas issues as well.