%0 Journal Article
%T Major complication after intrauterine vesico-amniotic shunting
%A Springer Alexander
%A Fartacek Renate
%A Reck Carlos
%A Horcher Ernst
%J African Journal of Paediatric Surgery
%D 2010
%I Medknow Publications
%X Bilateral foetal uropathy is the leading cause of chronic renal failure in childhood. Vesico-amniotic shunting (VAS) is a simple, feasible, and widely used procedure for decompressing the foetal urinary system. We report a case of a boy with bilateral foetal uropathy who underwent VAS at a gestational age of 29 weeks. Vesico-abdominal shunt dislodgement occurred and led to urinary ascites and anhydramnios. Postpartal laparotomy showed a shunt perforation between the urinary bladder and the peritoneal cavity.
%K Foetal uropathy
%K posterior urethral valves
%K vesico-amniotic shunting
%U http://www.afrjpaedsurg.org/article.asp?issn=0189-6725;year=2010;volume=7;issue=3;spage=200;epage=202;aulast=Springer