Post-Shunt Complications in Hydrocephalus:Analysis of 64 Operated Patients

ABSTRACT

The operative treatment of hydrocephalus has been quite challenging to neurosurgeon, because so many kinds of complications were stirred by the procedure even though the operative technique has been steadily improved. All the more they were hardly managed with ease. In the paper, the authors trix to analyze post-shunt complications of 64 patients seen frm 1980 to 1987, to find out any precipitating factors of the complications and to suggest the way to overcome the factors. The rate of post-shunt complication was 31.5%, and the most common complications were shunt malfunction(14.1%), subdural fluid accumulation(10.9%) and infection(9.4%).