Hemishperectomy

[flinnigan]

Here's a nightline story don't know how I missed it. Caught it on yahoo,

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/baby-ha...ry?id=12503272

[Endless]

Wow. I can't even imagine being a parent and having to make that kind of decision for my child. How incredibly difficult. I'm so glad the little guy is doing okay now.

[Dutch mom]

We do have several cases of succesful hemispherectomies in our Dutch forum support group, children with severe epilepsy syndromes such as Infantile spasms, who are seizure free after this surgery. It's a treatment which is very succesful in general and - hard to believe - not as risky as one would think. Two new operations are sceduled for January for a boy and a girl in our group. Not many of our kids do get this chance. The epilepsy need to be in just one hemispere and has to start in a part of the brain which can be operated without causing more damage. A WADA-test and sometimes an open brain EEG is needed.

[stephk]

that is incredible! Thank you for posting this.