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E. coli meningitis as an indicator of intestinal perforation by V-P shunt tube
1Neurosurgery Department, College of Medicine & Medical Sciences, King Faisal University/King Fahd University Hospital, Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia.
Abstract:
Shunting systems widely used for the treatment of hydrocephalus have been connected with certain risks and potential complications which stem from implanting a non-biological material into the human body. Several complications have been reported to arise from the insertion of ventriculo-peritoneal shunts. This short report highlights the observation that when anaerobic meningitis together with gram negative E. Coli in the CSF of a V-P shunted patient is found, bowel perforation should be assumed. Four cases developed such a complication among 643 hydrocephalic patients of various etiology over a period of ten years.
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