Background: The rate of repeat shunt-related cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) infections and the contributing risk factors were analyzed. Methods: Our clinic treated 58 children for initial shunt ...
Uncontrolled over-drainage of cerebral spinal fluid could lead to neurological injury or death if the disconnection is undetected. There have been 26 reported injuries. There have been no reports of ...
Why Would You Need an Ommaya Reservoir? The Ommaya Reservoir was originally developed by a Pakistani neurosurgeon named Ayub Khan Ommaya in 1963. He developed it to deliver antifungal medicines ...
Idiopathic intracranial hypertension, also called pseudotumor cerebri, refers to elevated cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure that develops most often in women of reproductive age with obesity, causing ...
On Fridays and some Tuesdays, neurosurgeons in Kuopio place ventriculo-peritoneal shunts. During the procedure, they collect biopsies of skin, fat, muscle, right frontal cortex, intraventricular CSF.
Comparative Effects of Three Cytokine Regimens After High-Dose Cyclophosphamide: Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor, Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor (GM-CSF), and Sequential ...
Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2009;66(11):1020-1030. The dose of extended-release epidural morphine sulfate (range, 2.5–40 mg) or standard epidural morphine sulfate (5 mg) was administered via epidural ...
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