A ventricular shunt is a surgically implanted thin, plastic tube that drains extra fluid and relieves pressure on the brain. Children receive ventricular shunts for hydrocephalus, a condition ...

Case 2. D.E., a 5 1/2-year-old girl, was the product of a normal pregnancy, with a birth weight of 3 kg. (6 pounds, 10 ounces). When she was first seen at a well-baby clinic at 2 months of age, a ...

Inter-atrial shunt device therapy has shown mixed results in clinical trials, with clinical 'non-responders' typically showing features of more advanced heart failure. We aimed to analyse the ...

Supracristal VSDs occur just beneath the aortic valve at the left ventricular outflow tract. A Venturi effect can occur from the left to right shunt causing the aortic valve leaflet to prolapse ...

This paper defends the thesis that the heart can also develop sports injuries at the ventricular level. We will elaborate on our hypothesis, originally put forward in 2003, that intense endurance ...

of an average age of 2 months (±1.9 months SD), underwent shunt implantation. The size of the ventricular system was described by the Frontal Horn Index and its change after operative procedures ...

Anuncia Medical, Inc. ("Anuncia"), a pioneering company in CSF management and neurocritical care, has received Breakthrough ...

Around 350 patients with reduced left ventricular ejection fraction who ... risk HFrEF patients with an implanted permanent ...

The right ventricular wall is very thin and hypocontractile ... The treatment is surgical repair frequently with a bidirectional Glenn shunt which is performed by closing the tricuspid valve ...