ReviewChild's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery2006
Shunts vs endoscopic third ventriculostomy in infants: are there different types and/or rates of complications? A review.
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- Is all "communicating" hydrocephalus really communicating? Prospective study on the value of 3D-constructive interference in steady state sequence at 3T.AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology · 2009Trial
- Ventricular anatomy of hydrocephalus associated with myeloschisis and endoscopic third ventriculostomy.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2008Trial
- Management of neonatal hydrocephalus: feasibility of use and safety of two programmable (Sophy and Polaris) valves.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2008Trial
- Simultaneous endoscopic third ventriculostomy and ventriculoperitoneal shunt for infantile hydrocephalus.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2008Trial
- PITCH (pediatric infratentorial tumors - hydrocephalus-related complications) registry study design: observational, prospective, multicenter study evaluating the number of surgeries associated with the treatment of hydrocephalus secondary to infratentorial tumors in childhood and adolescence.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2026Observational
- Noninvasive Measurement of Cerebrospinal Fluid Flow in Shunted Hydrocephalus: Protocol for Scanner Calibration and Multisite Data Collection.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- A retrospective longitudinal analysis of risk factors, treatment outcomes and imaging parameters of ventricular collapse in idiopathic intracranial hypertension.Fluids and barriers of the CNS · 2025Article
- Evaluation of risk factors for obstruction of the intraventricular catheter after ventriculoperitoneal shunting in dogs with congenital internal hydrocephalus.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2025Article
- Regulation of brain fluid volumes and pressures: basic principles, intracranial hypertension, ventriculomegaly and hydrocephalus.Fluids and barriers of the CNS · 2024Review
- Review
- Posttraumatic hydrocephalus: Recent advances and new therapeutic strategies.Health science reports · 2023Article
- Chiari 1 Malformation and Epilepsy in Children: A Missing Relationship.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Treatment Strategies and Challenges to Avoid Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunting for Pediatric Hydrocephalus.Neurologia medico-chirurgica · 2022Review
- Cerebrospinal fluid hydrocephalus shunting: cisterna magna, ventricular frontal, ventricular occipital.Neurosurgical review · 2022Review
- The Role of Antisiphon Devices in the Prevention of Central Ventricular Catheter Obliteration for Hydrocephalus: A 15-Years Institution's Experience Retrospective Analysis.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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- Endoscopic third ventriculostomy in children with chronic communicating congenital hydrocephalus: a single-center cohort retrospective analysis.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2022Article
- Transient central diabetes insipidus after cranioplasty for craniosynostosis in an infant with septo-optic dysplasia.Clinical pediatric endocrinology : case reports and clinical investigations : official journal of the Japanese Society for Pediatric Endocrinology · 2022Article
- The stability of multifocal ventriculoperitoneal shunts with Y-connections.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2021Article
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Abstract
introductionThe decision-making process when we compare endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV) with shunts as surgical options for the treatment of hydrocephalus in infants is conditioned by the incidence of specific and shared complications of the two surgical procedures. REVIEW: Our literature review shows that the advantages of ETV in terms of complications are almost all related to two factors: (a) the avoidance of a foreign body implantation and (b) the establishment of a 'physiological' cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) circulation. Both these kinds of achievements are particularly important in infants because of the relative high rate of some intraoperative (i.e. abdominal) and late (secondary craniosynostosis, slit-ventricle syndrome) shunt complications in this specific subset of patients. On the other side, the main factor which is claimed against ETV is the relatively high risk of immediate mortality and neurological complications. Clinical manifestations of neurological structure damage seem to be more frequent in infants, probably due to the more relevant effect of parenchymal and vascular damage in this age group; however, both the immediate mortality and neurological damage risk of ETV procedures should be weighted against the long-term mortality and the late neurological damage which is not infrequently described as a consequence of shunt malfunction and proximal shunt revision procedures. Infections are possible in both ETV and extrathecal CSF procedures, especially in infants. However, the incidence of infective complications is significantly lower in case of ETV (1-5% vs 1-20%). Moreover, different from shunting procedures, infections in children with third ventriculostomy have a more benign course, being generally controlled by antibiotic treatment alone.
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