Shunt
Therapy allows the brain’s enlarged ventricles to return to a more normal size
in an effort to relieve the symptoms of hydrocephalus.
Benefits:
Provide an easy way for healthcare team to get cerebrospinal
fluid samples
Regulate the amount, flow direction, and pressure of
cerebrospinal fluid
Risks:
Shunt obstruction- Headache, Nausea, Drowsiness,Decreased
mental functions
Infection -unusual redness or swelling of the wounds or
along the length of the shunt.
Over drainage- Nausea ,Vertical headache, vomiting, drowsiness,
decreased performance.
For best treatment periodical checkups are necessary by best
Neuro
doctors available.
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