title: Visuvalve software: an aid to the diagnosis of shunt failure.
abstract: Software designed to help the neurosurgeon in the diagnosis of shunt malfunction is presented. This software allows the possibility to record on a 3.5 diskette a patient's clinical information and four views of a CT scan performed when the patient was doing perfectly well with his shunt. This diskette, operated by MS-DOS on any IBM-compatible personal computer, can be read at any time, anywhere. The evaluation of the system demonstrated it was safe, with an excellent adhesion of the patients and of their families.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, CHRU, Lille, France.
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Hladky
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Assaker
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Debeugny
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bourgeois
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rousseau
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dhellemmes
mesh_terms: D014695:Cerebral Ventriculography; D002557:Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts; D004630:Emergencies; D004868:Equipment Failure; D006801:Humans; D006849:Hydrocephalus / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D008838:Microcomputers; D012984:Software; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed