Open AccessCharacteristics of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) among children with ventriculoperitoneal shunt infections
Author(s) -
Hernán Rowensztein,
Lisandro Manfrin,
Marcela Paglia,
Tai Luong Cong,
Silvina Ruvinsky,
Adriana Scrigni
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
archivos argentinos de pediatría
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.236
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1668-3501
pISSN - 0325-0075
DOI - 10.5546/aap.2015.eng.244
Subject(s) - cerebrospinal fluid , shunt (medical) , medicine , hydrocephalus , surgery , pathology
A common (5%) complication of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) shunt systems is infection. CSF cytochemical findings have been used to choose the initial empirical antimicrobial treatment. The objective was to evaluate the results of cytochemical and microbiological analyses of CSF samples obtained from children with pyogenic ventriculitis associated to ventriculoperitoneal shunt systems. This was a retrospective, descriptive and analytical study. Thirty-two cases of pyogenic ventriculitis were included; Gram-positive bacteria were predominant in 26 cases (81.25%); the rest corresponded to Gram-negative bacteria. There were no statistically significant differences for the studied outcome variables (CSF cellularity, glucose and protein levels).