Case Report
Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Peritoneal Catheter Knot Formation
Table 1
Summary of reported cases of peritoneal catheter knot formation.
| Author/year | Age/sex | Basic pathology | Time interval between shunt and presentation | Presentation | Management |
| Starreveld et al. (1998) [4] | 7 days/F | Hydrocephalus | NA | Bowel gangrene | Bowel resection and ventriculoatrial shunt |
Toshifumi and Tatsuro (2001) [14] | 63 Y/M | Head injury and hydrocephalus | 20 years | Bowel obstruction without gangrene | Laparotomy and unknotting of the catheter | Chopra et al. (2004) [11] | 25 Y/F | Bithalamic glioma and hydrocephalus | 2 months | Shunt malfunction | Excision of knotted catheter segment |
Woerdeman and Hanlo (2006) [12] | 10 days/M | Chiari malformation and myelomeningocele | 3 days | Shunt malfunction | Unknotting of the catheter |
Eftekhar and Hunn (2008) [13] | 3.5 Y/M | Hydrocephalus | 39 months | Shunt malfunction | Unknotting of the catheter | Mohammed et al. (2011) [9] | 14 Y/M | Congenital hydrocephalus | NA | Shunt malfunction | Shunt revision | Borcek et al. (2012) [3] | 3 Y/M | Head injury | 34 months | Shunt malfunction | Shunt revision |
Mohindra and Sharma (2012) [10] | 10 Y/M | Congenital hydrocephalus and Crouzon’s syndrome | 7 Years | Incidental | Nil | Present case | 8 Y/M | Congenital calvarial defect and hydrocephalus | 2 months | Shunt infection and malfunction | Shunt revision |
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NA: no available data.
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