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ON THE OPTIMAL POSITION OF THE CARDIAC CATHETER TIP IN VENTRICULO-ATRIAL SHUNT:Reflection on an Autopsy Case and an Inquiry with Endocardiac Electrocardiography Kazuki SAKATA 1 , Kunikazu SUHARA 1 , Shigeo UEDA 1 , Takashi WATANABE 1 , Yoshitoki MURASE 1 , Akira HIROSE 1 1The 2nd Dept. of Surgery, School of Medicine, Gifu Univ. pp.971-975
Published Date 1967/10/1
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.1406202287
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Ventriculo-atrial shunt operation is the most popular treatment for hydrocephalus at the present. However, its serious complications have been reported by vari-ous authors. Among these complications, obstruction of the cardiac catheter by formation of thrombi and septicemia are important ones. For its prevention, placement of the catheter tip at the center of the right atrium is believed to he essential. The endo-cardiac electrocardiography method (Robertson, et al.) is an excellent one for this purpose. We regularly are recording satisfactory endocardiac electrocardi-ogram from a Pudenz-Heyer cardiac catheter by fill-ing (not flushing) the catheter with 20% saline solu-tion. Recently we experienced an autopsy case of hydrocephalic infant who had undergone ventriculo-atrial shunting and succumbed to postoperative septicemia. In this case the catheter tip was found to be located exactly at the right mid-atrium and there was localized infectious endocarditis with nodular hypertrophy in the tricuspid valve region. We supposed a possibility that the intracardiac catheter tip might have touched the tricuspid valve at the time of neck anteflection, thus producing the locus minoris resistentiae. In another case of ventriculo-atrial shunting we examined this possibility during the operation by observing changes in endocardiac electrocardiogram caused by anteflection of the neck. It was found that the neck flection caused a movement of the catheter tip for half a distance between the inferior border of the superior vena cava orifice into the right atrium and the tricuspid valve. It is therefore possible that the catheter tip placed at the mid-atrium while the neck is extended during the operation reaches the tricuspid valve when the neck is anteflexed postoperatively. Whether the catheter tip should be placed at the biphasic P point while the neck is extended, or it should be placed at the biphasic P point while the neck is anteflexed, is the problem to be solved in future, but at the present we are of the opinion that the latter is a safer meth-od.


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