Predictors of shunt insertion in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage-a single-centre retrospective analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

No standard has been established regarding timing and choice of strategy for discontinuation of external ventricular drainage (EVD) in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage (aSAH), and little is known about the importance of clinical variables. A proportion of the patients who initially pass their discontinuation attempt return with delayed hydrocephalus and the need of a permanent shunt. Early differentiation between patients who need a shunt and those who do not would facilitate care. We conducted a retrospective analysis on patients with aSAH and an EVD to search significant differences in treatment and clinical variables between patients who received a permanent shunt during initial hospitalization or after readmission, and those who never received a shun

SUBMITTER: Capion T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10799140 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature