A shunt helps to drain the excess fluid and relieve the pressure in the brain. A shunt should be placed as soon as hydrocephalus is diagnosed.
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Hydrocephalus can permanently damage the brain, causing problems with physical and mental development. If untreated, it is usually fatal. With treatment, many people lead normal lives with few limitations. Treatment usually involves surgery to insert a shunt.
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In medicine, a shunt is a hole or passage which moves, or allows movement of fluid from one part of the body to another. The term may describe either congenital or acquired shunts; and acquired shun...
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A ventricular shunt is a tube that is surgically placed in one of the fluid-filled chambers inside the brain (ventricles). ... The ventricular shunt tube is placed to drain fluid from the ventricular system in the brain to the cavity of the abdomen or to the large vein in the neck (jugular vein). Therefore,
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They plainly stated that they didn't think that such a thing could cause the level of pain that I was experiencing and cautioned that, if I did have an infection, they would have to replace my shunt, give me antibiotics and then replace my shunt again to ensure that my brain fluid was not re-infected.
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Please, I would love to hear from all that have a brain shunt and the experiences, both good and bad, that I may expect! I do know the shunt surgery was by far worse than the original tumor removal as far as the pain level and the healing is going.
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CSF has three important life-sustaining functions: 1) to keep the brain tissue buoyant, acting as a cushion or "shock absorber"; 2) to act as the vehicle for delivering nutrients to ... The degree to which relief of CSF pressure following shunt surgery can minimize or reverse damage to the brain is not well understood.
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