An eleventh surgery was performed in early 2004 to give Dia a special shunt system.
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Any variation from this formula can lead to an ineffective, yet patent shunt system, despite a low-pressure setting.
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Two weeks after this her fourth ventricle had gotten hydrocephalus again, and so a tenth surgery was carried out to give her a completely new shunt system.
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A shunt system can also be placed in the lumbar space of the spine and have the CSF redirected to the peritoneal cavity ( Lumbar-peritoneal shunt ).
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Because she had failed every adult shunt system availble in Philadelphia, the surgeons decided to give her a pediatric tube in the stomach and an adult reservoir in the brain.
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Since the Dandy-Walker cyst occludes the drainage of CSF from the other ventricles, it results in hydrocephalus, the swelling of the ventricles and consequently the elevation of ICP . This conceivably requires the placement of a shunt system.
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