11 results for “shunt insertion”
15y · Male·Cerebral ischaemia in a young man with a blocked ventricular peritoneal shunt an…
…aughn Richard Rasmussen, a 15-year-old boy with congenital abnormalities and a ventricular-peritoneal (VP) shunt, died from cerebral ischaemia caused by acute blockage of his VP shunt on 17 November 2009. Between 12-16 …
37y · Male·mixed drug toxicity with fentanyl as the principal agent
37-year-old Jason Cullen died from mixed drug toxicity with fentanyl as the principal agent. He had chronic idiopathic intracranial hypertension requiring multiple neurosurgeries and was prescribed opioids and benzodiaze…
3y · Male·Brainstem ischaemia in association with Arnold Chiari malformation
…ar-old with Arnold Chiari malformation and hydrocephalus, died from brainstem ischaemia following multiple shunt complications and emergency decompression surgery. The coroner found that after Matthew's presentation wit…
0y · Female·Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy arising from thrombosis in Blalock-Taussig shun…
Holly South, an 8-month-old with complex congenital heart disease requiring a Blalock-Taussig shunt, died of hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy from thrombosis in her shunt after presenting to hospital with v…
10y · Female·congenital hydrocephalus
…om complications of congenital hydrocephalus following delayed diagnosis of a blocked ventriculoperitoneal shunt. She presented to the emergency department with seizures and raised intracranial pressure (ICP) but the di…
5y · Female·Cardiac and respiratory arrest probably connected with embolic stroke
…with asplenia and situs inversus) died of cardiac arrest from embolic stroke. She had undergone initial BT shunt surgery but required a Glenn shunt, clearly indicated after cardiac catheterization in 2006-2007. Critical…
60y · Female·Complications of metastatic melanoma in the setting of neck of femur fracture fo…
Susan Ruth Lovell, a 60-year-old woman, died from complications of metastatic melanoma in the setting of a neck of femur fracture sustained during a fall. A skin lesion on her left calf, noted in January 2010, was clinic…
54y · Female·Pneumonia and radiation induced brain injury
Vishna Damke, a 54-year-old woman with a long history of brainstem tumour treated with radiotherapy in 1994-1995, died of pneumonia complicated by radiation-induced brain injury. She had experienced progressive neurologi…
13y · Female·Complex congenital heart disease (operated) and sepsis
Belle Bromley, a 13-month-old child with complex congenital heart disease (22q11 deletion syndrome causing pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect and major aorta-pulmonary collateral arteries), died from sepsis…
61y · Female·Diffuse alveolar damage in a woman with restrictive lung disease following catar…
A 61-year-old woman with severe restrictive lung disease, obesity, cardiac failure, and diabetes underwent cataract surgery at a private day surgery centre on 13 August 2018. She was unable to lie flat and became hypoxic…
0y · Male·hypoxia and reduced pulmonary perfusion complicating congenital heart disease
Logan Scott Fergusson, a 6½-week-old neonate with complex congenital heart disease (pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect), died from hypoxia and reduced pulmonary perfusion following surgery at the Royal Chil…
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