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Title |
Brain abscess formation as a CSF shunt complication: a case report
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Published in |
Cases Journal, January 2009
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DOI | 10.1186/1757-1626-2-110 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Aimun AB Jamjoom, Abrar R Waliuddin, Abdulhakim B Jamjoom |
Abstract |
The formation of a brain abscess as a result of a cerebrospinal fluid shunt complication is extremely rare in the literature with only 7 cases reported in the last 20 years. We report a patient that developed a brain abscess adjacent to a functioning ventricular catheter in the presence of shunt infection by another pathogen. Clinicians should consider this complication in any shunted patient with clinical features of infection and suggestive changes on imaging however subtle. Expedited standard management for the abscess and the CSF shunt infection, if present, should be employed. Removal of all non-functioning catheters should be encouraged. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 27 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Unknown | 27 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Other | 4 | 15% |
Student > Postgraduate | 4 | 15% |
Student > Master | 4 | 15% |
Researcher | 3 | 11% |
Professor > Associate Professor | 3 | 11% |
Other | 5 | 19% |
Unknown | 4 | 15% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 10 | 37% |
Neuroscience | 4 | 15% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 11% |
Immunology and Microbiology | 1 | 4% |
Unspecified | 1 | 4% |
Other | 2 | 7% |
Unknown | 6 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 June 2023.
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