Intraventricular Tissue Plasminogen Activator and Shunt Dependency in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Patients With Cast Ventricles.

Joshua S CatapanoKavelin RumallaKatherine KarahaliosVisish M SrinivasanMohamed A LabibTyler S ColeJacob F BaranoskiCaleb RutledgeRedi RahmaniAshutosh P JadhavAndrew F DucruetFelipe C AlbuquerqueJoseph M ZabramskiMichael T Lawton

Published in: Neurosurgery (2022)

Ventricular casting in aSAH patients was associated with an increased risk of chronic hydrocephalus and shunt dependency. However, this risk decreased with the administration of intraventricular tPA.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
chronic kidney disease
heart failure
peritoneal dialysis
left ventricular
cerebrospinal fluid