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Case Reports
Percutaneous placement of the peripheral catheter to the subclavian vein for a VA shunt.
- Drosos Evangelos, Giakoumettis Dimitrios, Sfakianos Georgios, Eleftherakis Nikolaos, Papadopoulos Filippos, and Themistocleous Marios.
- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Athens Medical School, "Evangelismos" General Hospital, Athens, Greece.
- Pan Afr Med J. 2017 Jan 1; 27: 42.
AbstractHydrocephalus is a common neurosurgical pathology that affects people of all ages and especially the pediatric population. It can be very often a life threatening condition that pediatric neurosurgeons must deal with. Therefore a number of CSF diversion techniques have been established. The gold standard treatment currently is the placement of a ventriculo-peritoneal shunt. Because of hydrocephalus being a lifelong condition, it is almost in daily practice dealing with cases of shunt failures for a number of reasons. Herewith we present a 4 year old child with multiple ventriculo-peritoneal shunt revision surgeries and ventriculo-atrial failure due to distal catheter malfunction that was treated with percutaneous placement of the peripheral catheter in the subclavian vein.
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