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KOCHI: A 24-year-old woman who was thought to be dead for almost 20 minutes after suffering a cardiac arrest on the operation table miraculously survived in a city hospital. "The shunt moves fluid from the brain to the peritoneal cavity , the space outside the intestines within the abdomen. But these tubes are notorious to get dysfunctional or infected," said Dr Bahuleyan. They first attempted to remove the shunt tube through a key hole surgery with flexible endoscope but during surgery it was found that the tube had penetrated to the brain with a tuft of blood vessels around it. "My daughter is feeling better," said the patient's father.The first shunt was placed in her body after she was diagnosed with congenital hydrocephalus when she was eight months..