Chennai: MGM Healthcare has announced that it had successfully performed a rare surgery to treat uncontrolled seizure attacks in a 16-month old infant.
A 15-member team under the leadership of Dr Sridhar K, director and group head, Institute of Neurosciences & Spinal Disorders, MGM Healthcare conducted this surgery, the hospital said.
According to Dr Sridhar, ‘the toddler from Chennai started having seizures from almost the time he was born and this problem only got worse within the next few months.’
Dr Arulmozhi, consultant pediatric neurologist explaining the clinical condition of the child said, “The baby had a complicated birth history and developed severe asphyxia soon after. By the time he turned 3 months, the infant experienced 40-50 jerks per day for which he was put on various medications.”
After multiple sessions of discussion, a rare procedure called Anterior Corpus Callosotomy was performed.