NCT00583336

Physician Preference Study of ShuntCheck - Madsen

Physician Preference Study of the Utility of ShuntCheck to Detect Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) in Patients With Ventriculo-Peritoneal CSF Shunts

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 200 (estimated)
• Sponsor: NeuroDx Development · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

ShuntCheck can be used to detect CSF flow in asymptomatic hydrocephalus patients and can be used to detect no-flow in symptomatic patients with shunt obstruction. Secondarily, the ShuntCheck test will yield the clearest results when patients are tested sitting up (or alternatively while supine)

Conditions

• CSF Flow Through the Shunt of a Hydrocephalus Patient

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	ShuntCheck	Thermal dilution test for CSF flow

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-09-01
• Primary completion: 2015-07-01
• Completion: 2015-09-01
• First posted: 2007-12-31
• Last updated: 2015-06-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States