title: [Congenital hydrocephalus. A multicenter retrospective longitudinal study of newborn infants treated with shunts 1976-1985].
abstract: A multicentric retrospective evaluation of 54 children was performed who were born between 1976 and 1985 with a clinically recognisable hydrocephalus and thereafter shunted. The 4 topics of the study included: 1) Analysis of pregnancy, antenatal diagnostic procedures and parturition, 2) Preoperative evaluation and intraoperative findings, 3) Long-term follow-up and 4) Prognosis (actual status) of the 45 surviving patients at the end of the study (May 1987). Patients with neonatal hydrocephalus were observed in 11% of all children shunted during the same time in the hospitals included in this study. During this period the incidence of new cases did not decrease.
mesh_terms: D002557:Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D006849:Hydrocephalus / Q000151:congenital* / Q000601:surgery; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology*; D012189:Retrospective Studies
vernacular_title: Der konnatale Hydrozephalus. Eine multizentrische retrospektive Longitudinaluntersuchung der von 1976-1985 geshunteten Neugeborenen.