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In a group of 183 spina bifida aperta patients born between 1964 and 1984, 154 (84%) had hydrocephalus. The majority of these patients (146) was treated with a ventricular shunt. The overall mortality among these 183 patients was 10%: 19 patients. All patients who died had a ventriculovascular shunt implanted soon after birth. Besides myelomeningocele and hydrocephalus none of them had other midline fusion defects. The cause of death of 7 of these patients was chronic renal failure. Twelve of these patients however died suddenly. Eleven of these 12 patients were subject of a clinical study. In one patient the cause of sudden death could not be identified.
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Staal, M.J., Regt, M.J.Md., Hess, J. (1990). Sudden Death in Hydrocephalic Spina Bifida Aperta Patients. In: Matsumoto, S., Sato, K., Tamaki, N., Oi, S. (eds) Annual Review of Hydrocephalus. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-11152-9_31
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