A shunt is a hollow tube surgically placed in the brain — or occasionally in the spine — to help drain cerebrospinal fluid and redirect it to another location in the body where it can be ...

CereVasc announced today that it received FDA breakthrough device designation for its investigational eShunt system.

Approximately 1,500 are born every year with a spinal cord that doesn't close before ... it reduces the need for a shunt after birth to protect the ventricles from the hydrocephalus or the fluid ...