Thread: Is it possible for a shunt to come loose?
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Old 07-06-2012, 11:19 PM
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Originally Posted by DeFreeze View Post
I'm not sure about the exact apparatus, but I assume there is a part that attaches to the skull and then a tube. Are there opportunities for those pieces to separate? would that be possible?
I am 14 and have had a shunt since I was 4 in 2003 and had an LP shunt until 2010 when a CT scan showed that the tubing was disconnected, but it was flowing enough when I was laying down that I wasn't having extreme symptoms.
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