New Images

I had new X Rays and CT scans done to make sure everything is working. The imaging 

in these scans is different from the ones in 2023. The 2023 X Rays weren't as bright.

X Ray Image of Shunt October 2023

Report below as follows

X Ray Image of my head April 2025.

EXAMINATION:

SHUNT SERIES

CLINICAL INFORMATION:

baseline shunt series for patient feeling well with vp shunt Z98.2 Presence of cerebrospinal fluid drainage device.

TECHNIQUE:

AP and lateral views of the skull, chest, abdomen and pelvis

COMPARISON:

CT head dated 11/29/2023. Cervical and abdominal radiograph dated 10/18/2022.

FINDINGS:

Right frontal approach ventricular catheter traverses the soft tissues of the neck, chest wall, and abdomen and enters the abdomen with distal tip in the left lower quadrant. No kinking or discontinuity of the shunt is identified. An additional abandoned catheter projects over the soft tissue in the right neck and catheter coursing below the diaphragm with tip projecting over the right mid abdomen as before, unchanged.

*Abandoned catheter refers to the original distal catheter from a 1993 revision that couldn't be removed during the 2nd surgery in 2014. The distal catheter had been in place for 26 years and had fused with my body. Therefore, a new catheter had to be added.

IMPRESSION:

Right frontal approach ventriculoperitoneal shunt without evidence of kinking or discontinuity. Other findings as above.

 

CT Scan April 2025

My shunt is the little white dot. I'm not sure how they can tell I have slit ventricle syndrome. I didn't have slit ventricle syndrome until my shunt was moved to the wrong side of my brain in 2009.