Hi
I am writing for my 4 yr old son. He has hydrocephalus and placed first shun at 9 month old. He had severe infection and lost connection even with lateral ventricles. Now he is living with 2 shunts but nowadays he is having regular issues in abdomen and making pseudocyst in abdomen causing shunt block and bowel obstruction etc. neurosurgeon is now planning va shunt. Is it better than vp shunt interns of stability He has now 20 surgeries and I want him to live some years without problems. Is it too risky to have va shunt. Looking for replies from all. Thnx gijo

I had the same surgery vp to va no its a simple surgery i got it done on the 23 and was going home the next day. I'm so sorry your son has to go through this hopefully he will get a break from surgeries after this one.