The effect of image-guided ventricular catheter placement on shunt failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Pietro SpennatoFrancesca VitulliNicola OnoriniAlessia ImperatoGiuseppe MironeClaudio RuggieroGiuseppe Cinalli

Published in: Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (2022)

Our analysis suggest images guidance during VC shunt placement does not statistically affect shunt survival. Nevertheless, intraoperative tools can support the surgeon especially in patients with difficult anatomy, slit ventricles or complex loculated hydrocephalus.

Keyphrases

pulmonary artery
ultrasound guided
heart failure
coronary artery
deep learning
subarachnoid hemorrhage
pulmonary hypertension
pulmonary arterial hypertension
convolutional neural network
cerebrospinal fluid
patients undergoing
optical coherence tomography
free survival
brain injury
data analysis