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Journal of Pediatric Neurology 2014; 12(04): 213-215
DOI: 10.3233/JPN-140665
Case Report
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart – New York

Tricuspid valve perforation in a child with ventriculoatrial shunt

Serdal Güngör
a   Department of Pediatric Neurology, Inonu University, Faculty of Medicine, Malatya, Turkey
,
Müjgan Arslan
b   Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Inonu University, Malatya, Turkey
,
Cemşit Karakurt
c   Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, Inonu University, Malatya, Turkey
,
Sabiha Güngör Raif
b   Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Inonu University, Malatya, Turkey
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08 January 2014

10 June 2014

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30 July 2015 (online)

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Abstract

Ventriculoperitoneal and ventriculoatrial shunting methods are used for the surgical treatment of hydrocephalus. However, many years or months after the treatment, complications can develop. In this article, we report on a patient with perforation of the tricuspid valve and tricuspid insufficiency, which developed as a complication of the ventriculoatrial shunt. This is a previously unreported complication in pediatric patients with a ventriculoatrial shunt. Because of fairly common and life-threatening cardiac complications, ventriculoatrial shunted patients should be monitored closely by echocardiography.

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Child - perforation of tricuspid valve - ventriculoatrial shunt