Preventive effect of intermittent cerebrospinal fluid drainage for secondary chronic hydrocephalus after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage
Tomoyasu Yamanaka, Yusuke Nishikawa, Takashi Iwata, Teishiki Shibata, Mitsuru Uchida, Yuki Hayashi, Hiroyuki Katano, Motoki Tanikawa, Shigeki Yamada, Mitsuhito Mase · 2023
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Description
Tomoyasu Yamanaka and nine co-authors compare two ways to drain spinal fluid after a brain aneurysm bursts. Their twenty twenty-three article deals with subarachnoid hemorrhage and a late complication, chronic hydrocephalus, where fluid builds up in the brain. Drains are used to control pressure, either running all the time or opened at intervals.
The study covers two hundred four patients treated over fifteen years. Just under half developed the complication. The rate was far lower with intermittent drainage, about a third, than with continuous drainage, over half. Adjusted models kept the gap, with odds about a quarter as high. The authors read intermittent drainage as preventive.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Tomoyasu Yamanaka, Yusuke Nishikawa, Takashi Iwata, Teishiki Shibata, Mitsuru Uchida, Yuki Hayashi, Hiroyuki Katano, Motoki Tanikawa, Shigeki Yamada, Mitsuhito Mase |
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| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |