UK Shunt Registry

The most recent epidemiological study from the UK Shunt Registry demonstrates that 20% of cerebrospinal fluid shunt malfunction within 1 year of primary insertion, ranging from 31% in infants to 17.4% in adults 1) 2).

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Fernández-Méndez R, Richards HK, Seeley HM, Pickard JD, Joannides AJ; UKSR collaborators. Current epidemiology of cerebrospinal fluid shunt surgery in the UK and Ireland (2004-2013). J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2019 Jul;90(7):747-754. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2018-319927. Epub 2019 Mar 25. PubMed PMID: 30910858; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6585267.
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Lalou AD, Czosnyka M, Garnett MR, Nabbanja E, Petrella G, Hutchinson PJ, Pickard JD, Czosnyka Z. Shunt infusion studies: impact on patient outcome, including health economics. Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2020 May;162(5):1019-1031. doi: 10.1007/s00701-020-04212-0. Epub 2020 Feb 20. PubMed PMID: 32078047; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7156359.