Laparoscopic ventriculo-peritoneal shunt for hydrocephalus：analysis of 39 cases
YANG Chun-hong
XU Dong-chu
YANG Feng-zhong
Abstract：Objective To investigate the advantages and complications of laparoscopic ventriculo -peritoneal shunt for hydrocephalus .Methods A retrospective analysis was performed on the clinical data of 39 patients with hy-drocephalus treated by laparoscopic ventriculo-peritoneal shunt .Results Thirty-eight patients were followed up for 3 months to 1 year, one of them lost follow-up because telephone number replacement .Symptoms fully disappeared in 26 cases, symptoms significantly improved in 8 cases, symptoms did not significantly improved in 4 cases.Postopera-tive complications occurred in 6 cases(15.4%), including: shunt tube obstruction in 2 cases, epilepsy in 1 case, infection in 1 case, subdural hematoma in 1 case, intraventricular hemorrhage in 1 case.Conclusion Laparoscopic ventriculo-peritoneal shunt for hydrocephalus has advantages of less trauma , safe, fast, exact effect and less compli-cations such the drainage tube clogging , wrapped, infection, intestinal obstruction and worthy of popularizing.
Keywords：LaparoscopeHydrocephalusVentriculo-peritoneal shuntComplications
Publication Date：2014-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 1031-1033 )