"The blue catheter" - case report

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The ventriculoperitoneal shunt placement procedure is common throughout the world, with a prevalence of approximately 30,000 procedures per year in the United States (5). However, the rate of complications is still important and must be remembered, with a percentage of 11 to 25% after the first year of implantation. Abdominal complications are described in 5-47% of the cases (6), and the abdominal pseudocyst is one of them. We present the case of a patient colonized by multidrug-resistant bacteria, who underwent exteriorization surgery of a ventriculoperitoneal shunt. Intraoperatively, a blue coloration was observed in the catheter, a phenomenon previously described in urinary infections (1)(2) but not before in pathologies of the central nervous system. Our objective is to present an atypical case of dysfunction of the ventriculoperitoneal shunt, whose diagnosis couldbe evidenced through the coloration of the catheter exteriorized in surgery.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

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Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery - (2024) vom: 01. März

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lima, J V F [VerfasserIn]
da Costa, M D S [VerfasserIn]
Cavalheiro, S [VerfasserIn]

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Children
Infection
Journal Article
Neurosurgery
Ventriculoperitoneal

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Date Revised 01.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

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doi:

10.1007/s00381-024-06330-x

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NLM369169964