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The electrical potential difference (PD) between ventricular cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and blood was recorded simultaneously with intraventricular pressure in children with shunted hydrocephalus. The mean basal value was +4.1 mV. The ECG and small amplitude PD changes which matched the respiratory trace were seen in all patients. More prolonged wave-like PD changes, lasting about ten minutes, preceded A, or plateau, wave changes on the pressure trace, and were followed by a small positive change which lasted throughout the plateau wave. Similar briefer PD waves preceded individual B waves in the pressure trace. During episodes of recurrent B wave activity the overall PD showed more prolonged wave-like changes lasting up to an hour. In one patient a negative PD change was also associated with an episode of increased pulse pressure without an overall rise in pressure. The PD changes suggest that A and B pressure waves in the ventricular CSF are triggered by active secretion.
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Baxter, P.S., Minns, R.A. (1991). Potential Difference Records from Human Cerebrospinal Fluid. In: Matsumoto, S., Tamaki, N. (eds) Hydrocephalus. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68156-4_22
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