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The Ewha Medical Journal
Ewha Womans University School of Medicine

Ewha Med J 1995; 18(1):65-71

pISSN: 1598-7450

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12771/emj.1995.18.1.65

Original Article

The Complication of the Post-cererospinal Fluid Diversion Procedures in Hydrocephalus : An Analysis of 46 Operated Cases

Kyang Kwean Park

Copyright ⓒ 1995. Ewha Womans University School of Medicine. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Published Online: Jul 24, 2015

Abstract

The concepts of hydrocephalus can be applied at all conditions in which the intracranial volume of the cerebrospinal fluid is abnormally largd in relation to the volume of the brain. Most patients suffering from hydrocephalus has increased significantly with the advent of more sophisticated diagmostic tools sucy as CT, MRI and with rapid technical advances in shunt equipment. Since intracranial pressure is variable parameter depending on the factors as that some shunt complication are related to too much or to little cerebrospinal fluid drainage. In this report, the author analyzes post shunt complications of 46 patients from Jan, 1990 to Dec, 1994.

The rate of post shunt complications was 30% and the most common things were underdrtainage(16%), infction(10%), and shunt malfunction(6%).

Keywords: Hydrocephalus; Cerebrospinal Fluid Diversion Procedure; Shunt