Application of lumboperitoneal shunt and ventriculoperitoneal shunt in treatment of patients with communicating hydrocephalus :a Meta analysis / 重庆医学

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the effect of lumboperitoneal (L-P) shunt and ventriculoperitoneal(V-P) shunt for trea-ting the patients with communicating hydrocephalus .Methods The databases of PubMed ,Web of Science ,Scopuss ,Karge , EBSCO+MEDLINE ,OVID ,EMBASE ,CNKI ,CBM disc databases ,Wanfang databases ,Weipu databases were retrieved by com-puter .The relevant literatures about L-P shunt and V-P shunt for treating communicating hydrocephalus included in these databases during 1990-2016 were collected and performed the meta analysis by using the STATA 12 .0 software .Results The success rate of L-P shunt in treating communicating hydrocephalus was apparently higher than that of V-P shunt(P<0 .05) .Moreover ,postopera-tive infection rate ,obstruction rate of shunt system and total postoperative complications rate in L-P shunt were apparently lower than those of V-P shunt(P<0 .05) ,However ,there was no statistical difference in shunt poor rate between L-P shunt and V-P shunt(P>0 .05) .Conclusion L-P shunt is worth recommending .But due to lower quality of the evidences ,it is needed more high quality primary studies to remedy the insufficiency of the study .