title: Management of intraventricular hemorrhage in preterm infants with low birth weight.
abstract: The management of posthemorrhagic hydrocephalus is difficult and not well standardized. We evaluated our management protocol for infants with intraventricular and/or periventricular hemorrhage (IVH and PVH, respectively). There were four deaths and two significant treatment-related complications in our series. We also observed two cases of isolated ventricle in patients treated with reservoir placement. After evaluating our series, we modified our protocol from reservoir placement to either cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) drainage or ventriculosubgaleal shunt directly. We will reevaluate this new protocol in the near future.
authors: Department of Neurosurgery, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan. inagakit@takii.kmu.ac.jp
authors: Takayuki
authors: T
authors: Inagaki
authors: Takuya
authors: T
authors: Kawaguchi
authors: Takahiro
authors: T
authors: Yamahara
authors: Naoyuki
authors: N
authors: Kitamura
authors: Takashi
authors: T
authors: Ryu
authors: Yo
authors: Y
authors: Kinoshita
authors: Yasuo
authors: Y
authors: Yamanouchi
authors: Kazunari
authors: K
authors: Kaneko
authors: Keiji
authors: K
authors: Kawamoto
mesh_terms: D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007230:Infant, Low Birth Weight; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D047928:Premature Birth / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D017287:Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt / Q000379:methods*