TY - JOUR T1 - Does appendicitis in a child with a ventriculoperitoneal shunt necessitate shunt revision? JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood JO - Arch Dis Child SP - 607 LP - 609 DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2018-316265 VL - 104 IS - 6 AU - Peter D Johnstone AU - Jayaratnam Jayamohan AU - Dominic F Kelly AU - Simon B Drysdale Y1 - 2019/06/01 UR - http://adc.bmj.com/content/104/6/607.abstract N2 - In children with a ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt in situ, is shunt externalisation of the abdominal portion mandatory in acute appendicitis?A boy aged 8 years with a long-term VP shunt presented to the emergency department with right iliac fossa pain, nausea and vomiting. Abdominal ultrasound showed likely appendicitis. We wondered whether, in a child with a VP shunt in situ with appendicitis, the shunt should always be removed and what antibiotic regimen should be used?PubMed: ‘ventriculoperitoneal’ AND ‘shunt’ AND ‘appendicitis’ OR ‘peritonitis’Returned 89 results—of these 6 were relevant to our question. Other articles were excluded as they focused on bowel pathologies other than appendicitis, only included patients with primary VP shunt problems and were evaluating different surgical techniques.This systematic review demonstrates there are only a limited number of cases reported … ER -