Article
Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers of Neuroinflammation in Children with Hydrocephalus and Shunt Malfunction
2020-10-12
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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background</bold>: Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) shunt systems fail approximately 30% of the time within the first year of shunt implantation, while 98% of all patients with hydrocephalus (HCP) will suffer shunt failure in their lifetime. Perhaps due to the heterogeneity in etiology or the unique environment housing CSF shunt systems, the underlying reasons for shunt failure continue...
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- Literature Corpus work
- d80f4a88-602b-59f9-b040-4cd9e4e095fb
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-78728/v1
