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Acute hydrocephalus after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) parallels the clinical condition of the patient. It can be observed only in a minority of patients in good condition after SAH but in contrast in the majority of those in poor condition [8, 11]. Modem management protocols do not exclude the latter patients from active treatment [1, 2, 10]. In spite of its risks — a rate of infection up to 50% [3,7, 12] and an increased rate of rebleed [3, 9] — early ventricular drainage after SAH has been suggested to be useful in patients in poor condition [1,4] . The risks of ventricular drainage were investigated with special regard to those patients in whom it was done even before aneurysmal surgery.
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Brinker, T., Höllerhage, H.G., Fotopoulou, D., Götz, C. (1993). External Ventricular Drainage for Treatment of Acute Hydrocephalus After Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. In: Lorenz, R., Klinger, M., Brock, M. (eds) Intracerebral Hemorrhage Hydrocephalus malresorptivus Peripheral Nerves. Advances in Neurosurgery, vol 21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77997-8_20
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