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Hyponatraemia as a consequence of serial liquor punctures in preterm infants with a ventricular access device after posthaemorrhagic hydrocephalus
  1. K Tenbrock1,
  2. A Kribs1,
  3. B Roth1,
  4. B Speder2
  1. 1Department of Neonatology and Pediatric Intensive Care, University Children’s Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
  2. 2Neurosurgical Department, University Hospital of Cologne
  1. Correspondence to:
    Dr Tenbrock, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, MCR, Washington DC 20307-5100, USA;
    klaus.tenbrock{at}na.amedd.army.mil

https://doi.org/10.1136/fn.88.4.F351

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    We observed hyponatraemia in several preterm children treated with a ventricular access device (Rickham reservoir)1 after intraventricular haemorrhage (IVH)2 and serial liquor puncture to drain liquor. To rule out a connection, we retrospectively investigated the data of all preterm children (23–32 weeks of gestational age) treated at the University Children’s Hospital of Cologne with a ventricular access device during 1996–1999 (n = 16).

    Sixteen of 480 preterm infants …

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