Arthritis associated with ventriculoatrial shunt.

A hydrocephalic patient with acute recurrent arthritis as a complication of infected ventriculoatrial shunt is presented. The association of hypocomplementemic glomerulonephritis with infected shunt has been well documented, but arthritis as an additional consequence of the immune complex formation has rarely been described. The child reported here had recurrent bouts of arthritis for 8 months before he developed overt nephritis.