Staphylococcus lugdunensis infection of ventriculoperitoneal shunt in adult: Case report and literature review

Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt (VPS) placement is one of the most commonly performed treatment modality in patient with hydrocephalus and infection is usually seen in such patients with shunt complication. Multiple shunt revision and its complications are related to various causes including mainly Coagu...

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Autores principales: Mohanty, Aroop, Jha, Mithilesh Kumar, Kabi, Ankita, Jha, Nisha, Gupta, Pratima
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6881936/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31803687
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_507_19
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author Mohanty, Aroop
Jha, Mithilesh Kumar
Kabi, Ankita
Jha, Nisha
Gupta, Pratima
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Jha, Nisha
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description Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt (VPS) placement is one of the most commonly performed treatment modality in patient with hydrocephalus and infection is usually seen in such patients with shunt complication. Multiple shunt revision and its complications are related to various causes including mainly Coagulase negative Staphylococcus (CONS) infection. VPS obstruction occurring in proximal catheter is he most common cause of VPS malfunction. Here we present a case of Venticuloperitoneal shunt infection caused by CONS in a adult patient.
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spelling pubmed-68819362019-12-04 Staphylococcus lugdunensis infection of ventriculoperitoneal shunt in adult: Case report and literature review Mohanty, Aroop Jha, Mithilesh Kumar Kabi, Ankita Jha, Nisha Gupta, Pratima J Family Med Prim Care Case Report Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt (VPS) placement is one of the most commonly performed treatment modality in patient with hydrocephalus and infection is usually seen in such patients with shunt complication. Multiple shunt revision and its complications are related to various causes including mainly Coagulase negative Staphylococcus (CONS) infection. VPS obstruction occurring in proximal catheter is he most common cause of VPS malfunction. Here we present a case of Venticuloperitoneal shunt infection caused by CONS in a adult patient. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019-11-15 /pmc/articles/PMC6881936/ /pubmed/31803687 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_507_19 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Staphylococcus lugdunensis infection of ventriculoperitoneal shunt in adult: Case report and literature review
title Staphylococcus lugdunensis infection of ventriculoperitoneal shunt in adult: Case report and literature review
title_full Staphylococcus lugdunensis infection of ventriculoperitoneal shunt in adult: Case report and literature review
title_fullStr Staphylococcus lugdunensis infection of ventriculoperitoneal shunt in adult: Case report and literature review
title_full_unstemmed Staphylococcus lugdunensis infection of ventriculoperitoneal shunt in adult: Case report and literature review
title_short Staphylococcus lugdunensis infection of ventriculoperitoneal shunt in adult: Case report and literature review
title_sort staphylococcus lugdunensis infection of ventriculoperitoneal shunt in adult: case report and literature review
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6881936/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31803687
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_507_19
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