Ventriculo azygos vein shunt [Neurosurgery Wiki]

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=====Ventriculo azygos vein shunt=====
Ventriculo [[azygos vein]] [[shunt]] is a type of [[ventricular shunt]].

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====Case reports====
A woman after failing peritoneal, pleural, and atrial distal drainage sites underwent a thorascopic-assisted ventriculo-azygous vein shunt placement.

A 32-year-old woman with long-standing history of hydrocephalus and shunt dependence. She had failed peritoneal and atrial shunts secondary to infection, scarring, and clot formation. At presentation, she had a pleural shunt in place and developed a large pleural effusion with shortness of breath.

She was taken to the operating room where a thorascopic-assisted ventriculo-azygous vein shunt was placed through a mini-thoracotomy. Postoperatively, she has not required a shunt revision in >2 years of follow-up.

When other distal sites fail, this case report illustrates a novel surgical technique capable of being performed through a multidisciplinary approach
((Pace J, Smith GA, Pannunzio A, Rothstein B, Markowitz A, Hoffer A.
Thorascopic-Assisted Ventriculo-Azygous Shunt Placement for the Treatment of
Hydrocephalus: Case Report. Neurosurgery. 2015 Aug 19. [Epub ahead of print]
PubMed PMID: 26295498.)).