or acquired shunts; acquired shunts (sometimes referred to as iatrogenic shunts) may be either biological or mechanical. Cardiac shunts may be described...

Look up shunt in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Shunt may refer to: Shunt (medical), a hole or passage allowing fluid to move from one part of the body...

A portosystemic shunt or portasystemic shunt (medical subject heading term; PSS), also known as a liver shunt, is a bypass of the liver by the body's...

A cerebral shunt is a device permanently implanted inside the head and body to drain excess fluid away from the brain. They are commonly used to treat...

A right-to-left shunt is a cardiac shunt which allows blood to flow from the right heart to the left heart. This terminology is used both for the abnormal...

made by physical examination and medical imaging. Hydrocephalus is typically treated by the surgical placement of a shunt system. A procedure called a third...

treating portal hypertension that is refractory to medical therapy, replacing the surgical portacaval shunt in that role. TIPS is a life-saving procedure in...

The Wade-Dahl-Till (WDT) valve is a cerebral shunt developed in 1962 by hydraulic engineer Stanley Wade, author Roald Dahl, and neurosurgeon Kenneth Till...

In cardiology, a cardiac shunt is a pattern of blood flow in the heart that deviates from the normal circuit of the circulatory system. It may be described...

called the phosphogluconate pathway and the hexose monophosphate shunt or HMP shunt) is a metabolic pathway parallel to glycolysis. It generates NADPH...