ArticleChild's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery2010
Endoscopic third ventriculostomy for obstructive hydrocephalus in children younger than 6 months of age.
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- Efficacy and safety of endoscopic third ventriculostomy and choroid plexus cauterization for infantile hydrocephalus: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2016Pooled it
- Endoscopic third ventriculostomy with/without choroid plexus cauterization for hydrocephalus due to hemorrhage, infection, Dandy-Walker malformation, and neural tube defect: a meta-analysis.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2014Pooled it
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- Long-term quality of life after ETV or ETV with consecutive VP shunt placement in hydrocephalic pediatric patients.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2022Article
- AQP4 labels a subpopulation of white matter-dependent glial radial cells affected by pediatric hydrocephalus, and its expression increased in glial microvesicles released to the cerebrospinal fluid in obstructive hydrocephalus.Acta neuropathologica communications · 2022Article
- 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
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- External validation of the ETV success score in 313 pediatric patients: a Brazilian single-center study.Neurosurgical review · 2021Article
- Endoscopic third ventriculostomy and cerebrospinal fluid shunting for pure communicating hydrocephalus in children.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2021Article
- Neurologic infections during pregnancy.Handbook of clinical neurology · 2020Review
- Successful endoscopic third ventriculostomy in children depends on age and etiology of hydrocephalus: outcome analysis in 51 pediatric patients.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2018Article
- Endoscopic third ventriculostomy in children with a fiber optic neuroendoscopy.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2018Article
- Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy: Success and Failure.Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society · 2017Review
- The efficacy analysis of endoscopic third ventriculostomy in infantile hydrocephalus.Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society · 2015Article
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Abstract
purposeThe outcome of endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV) is worse in children younger than 2 years old and especially in infants, and controversies still exist whether ETV might be superior to shunt placement in this age group. We retrospectively analyzed the data of 23 patients younger than 6 months of age treated with ETV and assessed its feasibility as a first choice of treatment for hydrocephalus.
methodsBetween 1994 and 2008 in our clinic, 23 patients younger than 6 months having presented with obstructive hydrocephalus were treated endoscopically. The etiology of hydrocephalus was congenital aqueduct stenosis in 11 patients, posthemorrhagic obstruction in six patients, myelomeningocele in two patients, postmeningitis in two patients, Chiari I malformation in one patients, and Dandy walker variant in one patient. ETV was considered successful when no shunt operation was needed in the patient.
resultsETV was successful in eight patients with regression of intracranial hypertension. In the remaining 15 patients, ventriculoperitoneal shunt implantation was necessary. Total success rate in our group of patients was 34.8%. In patients younger than 3 months of age (n=12), success rate was 25.0%. In patients from 3 to 6 months of age (n=11), success rate was 45.5%. Complication included intraventricular hemorrhage in one patient, meningitis and cerebrospinal fluid leak in one patient, and meningitis in one patient.
conclusionsBased on our experience, ETV could be the first method of choice for hydrocephalus in children younger than 6 months of age, especially in patients older than 3 months of age.
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