- What is CSF Fistula, CSF Leak?
Whether it is brain surgery, back surgery or cervical disc hernia surgery; The most common problem that may occur to a patient who is operated on by a neurosurgeon, or as it is called in medical terms, is
“complication”;
“cerebrospinal fluid leak”,
“CSF leak”, “CSF leak”,
“cerebrospinal fluid leak” or medically known as “cerebrospinal fluid fistula”,
“CSF This is a condition called "fistula"
.
This means that clear water starts to flow through the patient's stitches and this flow continues to increase. The flowing water is actually cerebrospinal fluid, CSF fluid.
The patient's surgeon, of course, knows the dangers and what to do in this case of misfortune and does what is necessary. He gives the patient stronger antibiotics, re-stitches the wound, inserts a thin tube, that is, a catheter, into the patient's waist to drain the cerebrospinal fluid, or CSF, or takes the patient back into surgery; But rest assured, he/she will do the right thing.
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