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Actuarial event-free survival after the first surgery. This curve shows the characteristic biphasic curve initially, and then the curve shows a shoulder around 15 years, becoming almost parallel to the baseline. However, several patients had their first shunt revision after 20 years, showing that patients who have never been revised before cannot be considered as shunt-independent
