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<p>Ventricular shunting is a well-recognised and commonly practiced method of reducing increased intracranial pressure in patients with neurologic pathology. There are possible complications related to shunt implantation, where the rarest is intracardiac migration of the distal shunt catheter. We present a case where the distal catheter migrated into the right ventricle, causing extrasystoles and was complicated with acute right ventricle failure during the endovascular shunt evacuation procedure.</p>
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Ventricular shunting is a well-recognised and commonly practiced method of reducing increased intracranial pressure in patients with neurologic pathology. There are possible complications related to shunt implantation, where the rarest is intracardiac migration of the distal shunt catheter. We present a case where the distal catheter migrated into the right ventricle, causing extrasystoles and was complicated with acute right ventricle failure during the endovascular shunt evacuation procedure.

Neuromonitoring During Cardiac Surgery in a Patient with Ventriculo-Caval Shunt Migration: Case Report

Pauls Stradiņš Clinical University Hospital

Proceedings of the Latvian Academy of Sciences. Section B. Natural, Exact, and Applied Sciences.

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Ventricular shunting is a well-recognised and commonly practiced method of reducing increased intracranial pressure in patients with neurologic pathology....

Neuromonitoring During Cardiac Surgery in a Patient with Ventriculo-Caval Shunt Migration: Case Report

Published Online: Nov 15, 2021

Page range: 397 - 402

Received: Oct 01, 2020

Accepted: May 31, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/prolas-2021-0058

Keywords
neuromonitoring, ventriculo-caval shunt, ventricular shunt migration

© 2021 Roberts Leibuss et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Neuromonitoring During Cardiac Surgery in a Patient with Ventriculo-Caval Shunt Migration: Case Report

Published Online: Nov 15, 2021

Page range: 397 - 402

Received: Oct 01, 2020

Accepted: May 31, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/prolas-2021-0058

Keywordsneuromonitoring, ventriculo-caval shunt, ventricular shunt migration

© 2021 Roberts Leibuss et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
neuromonitoring, ventriculo-caval shunt, ventricular shunt migration