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Vol. 44. Issue 2.
Pages 141-143 (February 2021)
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Vol. 44. Issue 2.
Pages 141-143 (February 2021)
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Rectal perforation, a rare adverse event of ventriculoperitoneal shunt: Case report
Perforación rectal, un acontecimiento adverso raro de la derivación ventriculoperitoneal: informe de casos
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Guillermo Pérez-Aguado
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, Francisca Hernández Medina, Emilia María García García, Oliver Dub Machado, Néstor Alemán Pérez
Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital Universitario Gran Canaria Doctor Negrín, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain
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An 87-year-old woman with a VP shunt to treat normotensive hydrocephalus, was derived to Emergencies because she had a catheter protruding through the rectum. Previously, the doctor's residence decided to pull out the catheter and cut it off. In emergencies, she was asymptomatic with no evidence or palpation of the VP shunt during the physical exam. Blood test only revealed an elevation of RCP (188) with no leukocytosis. Cranial and abdominal CT scan confirmed that the shunt was placed correctly and without signs of perforation.

A colonoscopy with CO2 insufflation was performed, without possibility of reaching further than 30cm from the rectal margin due to inappropriate intestinal preparation, and showed no foreign bodies. However, 15mm margin rectal perforation was spotted at 10cm (Figs. 1 and 2) distance from the rectal margin and clipped using OVESCO, which gave excellent result (Fig. 3). Owing to the endoscopy findings, the ventriculoperitoneal shunt was removed. The patient stayed under surveillance for 24h and continued asymptomatic. She was finally discharged. The next day the patient came again exteriorising the rest of the catheter and it was removed manually with no complications (Fig. 4).

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Rectal perforation discovered by colonoscopy.

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Measurement of the rectal perforation with 15mm endoscopy forceps.

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Endoscopic clipping of the rectal perforation with 15mm OVESCO.

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Ventriculoperitoneal shunt going out through the rectum.

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Iatrogenic rectal perforation of a VP is a rare adverse event.1–3 It must be suspected in patients that carry this catheter with abdominal pain.1–7 In few cases, surgery can be avoided with endoscopy management.

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