This article is part of the supplement: 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for Research into Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida .

Oral presentation

In-vivo assessment of shunts inserted for the treatment of hydrocephalus

GianPaolo Petrella, Zofia Czosnyka , Marek Czosnyka, Piotr Smielewski and John D Pickard

Academic Neurosurgical Unit, Box 167 Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, UK

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from 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for Research into Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida
Cambridge, UK. 30 August – 2 September 2006

Cerebrospinal Fluid Research 2006, 3(Suppl 1):S7doi:10.1186/1743-8454-3-S1-S7

Published:	21 December 2006

First paragraph (this article has no abstract)

Over a three-year period (2002–2004), we have performed 312 constant rate normal saline infusion studies in 197 patients with CSF shunts inserted to treat varying types of hydrocephalus. The data has been analysed retrospectively with two main objectives: 1. To investigate which parameters describing CSF dynamics correlate with the clinical finding of shunt malfunction (under drainage or over drainage). 2. To estimate accuracy of this method.