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Assessment of Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Function Using Ultrasound Characterization of Valve Interface Oscillation as a Proxy

Objective Ventricular shunts are a mainstay of hydrocephalus treatment, but the detection of its clinical failure often relies on circumstantial evidence. A direct, non-interventional method for reliably evaluating cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) function does not exist due to the difficulty of measuring...

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Autores principales: Aralar, April, Bird, Matthew, Graham, Robert, Koo, Beomseo, Chitnis, Parag, Sikdar, Siddhartha, Shenai, Mahesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5908717/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29682435
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2205