Search for: [Abstract = "y Children’s Hospital of Cracow in the period between September 1998 and January 2003. The patient population was divided into two groups\: the experimental group comprised 31 children treated in the years 2001\-2003, in whom the new method of perioperative prevention had been employed. The controls \(comparative group\) included 33 children, who in the period from 1998 to 2001, had received the standard clinical treatment, employed in numerous other centers. 80 Pobrano z https\:\/\/portalwiedzy.cm\-uj.krakow.pl \/ Downloaded from Repository of Jagiellonian University Medical College 2022\-07\-07 The process of qualifying patients for a ventriculo\-peritoneal valve implantation was identical in both groups and based on the presence of clinical symptoms, head circumference measurements, as well as transfontanel ultrasonographic and CT confirmation of the cause of hydrocephalus and the presence of the enlarged ventricular system with increased intracranial pressure. The availability of transfontanel USG is presently high\; it has become a screening test in neonatal wards, which is particularly strictly observed in children belonging to the risk group \(premature newborns\), who are systematically monitored. Thanks to such an approach, children who are referred to our Department manifest no signs of clinically advanced internal hydrocephalus with its characteristic markedly"]

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