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ArticleFrontiers in neurology2022

Correlation between cerebrospinal fluid abnormalities before ventriculoperitoneal shunt and postoperative intracranial infection in adult patients with hydrocephalus: A clinical study.

Huan Zhang, Xiaozheng He, Linghai Xie, Hongbo Zhang, Xusheng Hou, Shizhong Zhang

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Article in Frontiers in neurology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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  1. Retrograde cricopharyngeal dysfunction and treatment with botulinum toxin: a systematic review.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2024
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Huan ZhangDepartment of Neurosurgery, Affiliated Hospital No. 2 of Nantong University, First People's Hospital of Nantong City, Nantong, China.
Xiaozheng HeGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory on Brain Function Repair and Regeneration, Department of Functional Neurosurgery, Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Linghai XieGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory on Brain Function Repair and Regeneration, Department of Functional Neurosurgery, Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Hongbo ZhangGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory on Brain Function Repair and Regeneration, Department of Functional Neurosurgery, Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Xusheng HouGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory on Brain Function Repair and Regeneration, Department of Functional Neurosurgery, Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Shizhong ZhangGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory on Brain Function Repair and Regeneration, Department of Functional Neurosurgery, Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Zhujiang Hospital · CNAffiliated Hospital of Nantong University · CNSouthern Medical University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Objective: To identify the relationship between preoperative cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leukocyte, chloride, glucose, aspartate aminotransferase, lactate dehydrogenase, adenosine deaminase, lactic acid and protein levels and ventriculoperitoneal shunt infection. Methods: Records of 671 consecutive adult patients who underwent ventriculoperitoneal shunt surgery for the treatment of hydrocephalus at Zhujiang Hospital affiliated with Southern Medical University from January 2011 to March 2022 were reviewed. The patients were divided into infection and non-infection groups based on the presence of postoperative infection. For all patients, we analyzed age; sex; primary disease; preoperative CSF leukocyte, chloride, glucose, aspartate aminotransferase, lactate dehydrogenase, adenosine deaminase, lactic acid and protein levels; postoperative temperature; and postoperative infection. Results: A total of 397 patients were included, 28 (7.05%) of whom had an infection within 6 months of the operation and the remaining had no infection. There was no significant difference in age, sex, primary disease, leukocyte, chloride ion, aspartate aminotransferase, lactate dehydrogenase, adenosine deaminase and protein levels in CSF between infection group and non-infection group ( Conclusions: For adult hydrocephalus patients without clinical manifestations of intracranial infection but only with simple abnormality of cerebrospinal fluid, when the content of glucose in cerebrospinal fluid is < 2.8 mmol/L, and the content of lactic acid is >2.8 mmol/L, it is recommended to perform ventriculoperitoneal shunt after further improvement of cerebrospinal fluid indicators, otherwise, hasty operation will increase the postoperative infection rate. The postoperative fever rate of ventriculoperitoneal shunt surgery is high and the body temperature drops rapidly. If there is still fever after day 3 after surgery, whether there is intracranial infection should be considered.

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cerebrospinal fluidhydrocephalusinfectionrisk factorsventriculoperitoneal shunt

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