A Reappraisal of the Necessity of a Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt After Decompressive Craniectomy in Traumatic Brain Injury
Purpose Cranioplasty itself is believed to have therapeutic effects on hydrocephalus. The goal of this study was to evaluate the hypothesis that not every patient with hydrocephalus after decompressive craniectomy needs cerebrospinal fluid diversion, and that cranioplasty should be performed before...
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| author | Seunghan Yu Hyuk Jin Choi Jung Hwan Lee Mahnjeong Ha Byung Chul Kim |
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| description | Purpose Cranioplasty itself is believed to have therapeutic effects on hydrocephalus. The goal of this study was to evaluate the hypothesis that not every patient with hydrocephalus after decompressive craniectomy needs cerebrospinal fluid diversion, and that cranioplasty should be performed before considering cerebrospinal fluid diversion. Methods Data were collected from 67 individual traumatic brain injury patients who underwent cranioplasty between January 1, 2019 and December 31, 2019. Patients’ clinical and radiographic progression was reviewed retrospectively based on their medical records. Results Twenty-two of the 67 patients (32.8%) had ventriculomegaly on computed tomography scans before cranioplasty. Furthermore, 38 patients showed progressive ventriculomegaly after cranioplasty. Of these 38 patients, only six (15.7%) showed worsening neurologic symptoms, which were improved by the tap test; these patients eventually underwent ventriculoperitoneal shunt placement. Conclusions Cerebrospinal fluid diversion is not always required for radiologically diagnosed ventriculomegaly in traumatic brain injury patients after decompressive craniectomy. A careful clinical and neurologic evaluation should be conducted before placing a shunt. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-f7a55088106e4cbb83beb4b05f868ca22025-01-08T08:08:35ZengKorean Society of TraumatologyJournal of Trauma and Injury1738-87672287-16832020-12-0133423624110.20408/jti.2020.00721051A Reappraisal of the Necessity of a Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt After Decompressive Craniectomy in Traumatic Brain InjurySeunghan Yu0Hyuk Jin Choi1Jung Hwan Lee2Mahnjeong Ha3Byung Chul Kim4Department of Neurosurgery, Medical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, KoreaDepartment of Neurosurgery, Medical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, KoreaDepartment of Neurosurgery, Medical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, KoreaDepartment of Neurosurgery, Medical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, KoreaDepartment of Neurosurgery, Medical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, KoreaPurpose Cranioplasty itself is believed to have therapeutic effects on hydrocephalus. The goal of this study was to evaluate the hypothesis that not every patient with hydrocephalus after decompressive craniectomy needs cerebrospinal fluid diversion, and that cranioplasty should be performed before considering cerebrospinal fluid diversion. Methods Data were collected from 67 individual traumatic brain injury patients who underwent cranioplasty between January 1, 2019 and December 31, 2019. Patients’ clinical and radiographic progression was reviewed retrospectively based on their medical records. Results Twenty-two of the 67 patients (32.8%) had ventriculomegaly on computed tomography scans before cranioplasty. Furthermore, 38 patients showed progressive ventriculomegaly after cranioplasty. Of these 38 patients, only six (15.7%) showed worsening neurologic symptoms, which were improved by the tap test; these patients eventually underwent ventriculoperitoneal shunt placement. Conclusions Cerebrospinal fluid diversion is not always required for radiologically diagnosed ventriculomegaly in traumatic brain injury patients after decompressive craniectomy. A careful clinical and neurologic evaluation should be conducted before placing a shunt.http://www.jtraumainj.org/upload/pdf/jti-2020-0072.pdfdecompressive craniectomyhydrocephalusventriculoperitoneal shunt |
| spellingShingle | Seunghan Yu Hyuk Jin Choi Jung Hwan Lee Mahnjeong Ha Byung Chul Kim A Reappraisal of the Necessity of a Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt After Decompressive Craniectomy in Traumatic Brain Injury Journal of Trauma and Injury decompressive craniectomy hydrocephalus ventriculoperitoneal shunt |
| title | A Reappraisal of the Necessity of a Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt After Decompressive Craniectomy in Traumatic Brain Injury |
| title_full | A Reappraisal of the Necessity of a Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt After Decompressive Craniectomy in Traumatic Brain Injury |
| title_fullStr | A Reappraisal of the Necessity of a Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt After Decompressive Craniectomy in Traumatic Brain Injury |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Reappraisal of the Necessity of a Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt After Decompressive Craniectomy in Traumatic Brain Injury |
| title_short | A Reappraisal of the Necessity of a Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt After Decompressive Craniectomy in Traumatic Brain Injury |
| title_sort | reappraisal of the necessity of a ventriculoperitoneal shunt after decompressive craniectomy in traumatic brain injury |
| topic | decompressive craniectomy hydrocephalus ventriculoperitoneal shunt |
| url | http://www.jtraumainj.org/upload/pdf/jti-2020-0072.pdf |
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