A novel technique for ventricular shunt catheter placement enables percutaneous management of obstructions, potentially reducing the need for surgical revision.
May reduce revisions in select shunt obstructions; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before practice change.
check; A technique is described for placement of ventricular shunt catheters which allows later nonoperative relief of obstruction within the proximal catheter. Operative revision of occluded ventricular catheters may often be avoided by percutaneous aspiration and irrigation of foreign material, thus decreasing the morbidity associated with shunt revision.
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