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  • Title: The acute abdomen in patients with ventriculoperitoneal shunts.
    Author: Rekate HL, Yonas H, White RJ, Nulsen FE.
    Journal: Surg Neurol; 1979 Jun; 11(6):442-5. PubMed ID: 483152.
    Abstract:
    A rationale for management of the patient with an acute adbomen and a ventriculoperitoneal shunt is presented in relation to eight patients. In two patients peritonitis was due to perforation of an abdominal viscus, not shunt related, and six were due to infections of ventriculoperitoneal shunts. Resolution of abdominal symptomatology occurs within six hours after the distal end of the shunt catheter is removed from the abdomen and placed in a drainage bottle. In four of these six, infection was limited to the peritoneal end of the catheter. The ventricular fluid was sterile.
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