Haasnoot K, van Vught A J
Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Free University Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Eur J Pediatr. 1992 Oct;151(10):748-50. doi: 10.1007/BF01959083.
The use of ventriculo-atrial shunts for CSF diversion in developing hydrocephalus has become rare because of the risk of chronic thrombo-embolism and subsequent pulmonary hypertension associated with an unfavourable prognosis. However, there remains a group of patients in whom ventriculo-atrial shunts have been inserted in the past. In this group, complications can occur after many years. We report on a 13-year-old girl with pulmonary hypertension caused by chronic thrombo-embolism from a ventriculo-atrial shunt.
