Vp Shunt Surgery Complications

The peritoneum or abdominal area is the most popular site for distal catheter implantation.

Vp shunt surgery complications. Ventriculoperitoneal shunt vps insertion is the most frequently used surgical treatment for patients with hydrocephalus with more than 30 000 procedures performed yearly in the united states. Spontaneous knotting of the peritoneal catheter is a rare complication of the vp. However complications including.

Abdominal complications are reported in 5 47 of ventriculoperitoneal shunt cases 1 2. Behçet uz children s hospital and at the department of neurosurgery tepecik training hospital. Ventriculoperitoneal shunt is one of the most popular cerebrospinal fluid diversion procedures worldwide.

Complications of intestinal obstruction and protrusion of the vps catheters into the scrotum are rarely seen in. People with ventriculoperitoneal vp shunts are at risk of developing a shunt infection secondary to abdominal infection. Although ventriculoperitoneal vp shunts do not have fewer complications than ventriculoatrial shunts the complications are less severe and have a lower mortality rate.

Shunt obstruction and infection continue to be common problems with vp shunts resulting in recurrent hospital admissions for revisions and replacements amounting to billions in medical costs per year. Review of four cases and literature review aliyu muhammad koko1 nasiru jinjiri ismail1 ali lasseini1 and sahabi m. This type of infection is most likely seen one to three months after surgery but can occur up to six months after the placement of a shunt.

Protrusion of the catheter from the anus. 1 vps surgery was first reported in 1898 2 and since then has become the mainstay of treatment for hydrocephalus. Although ventriculoperitoneal shunt vps surgery is the most frequent surgical treatment for patients with hydrocephalus modern rates of complications in adults are uncertain.

Ventriculoperitoneal shunt vp is one of the commonly performed neurosurgical procedures for the treatment of hydrocephalus a wide range of complications can occur along the path of the shunt from the ventricle to the peritoneal cavity 1 2 the complications of ventriculoperitoneal shunting may lead to failure of the procedure necessitating revision or reinsertion in most of the affected. Management of these patients with special emphasis on the literature pertaining to the migration of shunt catheters into the scrotum is reviewed and discussed.