Abstract
The Journal is the primary organ of Continuing Paediatric Medical Education in Sri Lanka. The journal also has a website. Free full text access is available for all readers.The Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health is now indexed in SciVerse Scopus (Source Record ID 19900193609), Index Medicus for South-East Asia Region (IMSEAR), CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International Global Health Database), DOAJ and is available in Google, as well as Google Scholar.The policies of the journal are modelled on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Guidelines on Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health is recognised by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) as a publication following the ICMJE Recommendations.
Highlights
Ventriculo-peritoneal (VP) shunt is an easy and inexpensive procedure done for the management of hydrocephalus all over the world
Of the 196 children who underwent VP shunt for hydrocephalus over a period of 10 years, 12.8% died, 10.2% had shunt obstruction and 6.6% had shunt infection. 1Associate Professor, Department of Paediatric Surgery, AIIMS, Bhopal, India, 2Associate Professor, AIIMS, Bhopal, India, 3Associate Professor, GM, Bhopal, India *Correspondence: roshanchanchlani@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8086-937 (Received on 14 August 2020: Accepted after revision on 18 September 2020) The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest Personal funding was used for the project
To assess the outcome of children having hydrocephalus who underwent a VP shunt. In this retrospective study, records of 196 children who were operated on by the first author for hydrocephalus in the paediatric age group were studied and the spectrum of complications noted. This ten year study was conducted from May 2010 to April 2020 and the patients were operated in various hospitals and tertiary care centres in Bhopal city, Madhya Pradesh, India
Summary
Ventriculo-peritoneal (VP) shunt is an easy and inexpensive procedure done for the management of hydrocephalus all over the world. It is associated with several complications and morbidity. With present day high standards of care, most patients operated for paediatric hydrocephalus survive but morbidity and mortality from hydrocephalus still exist[1]. Ventriculo-peritoneal (VP) shunt is the commonest surgery done for paediatric hydrocephalus[2]. Shunt infection is yet a serious complication[3,4]. Besides VP shunt, other shunting techniques for hydrocephalus are endoscopic third ventriculostomy, ventriculo-atrial shunts and lumbar-peritoneal shunts[5]
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