Sentences with phrase «for brain malformations»

She is also an advocate for brain malformations, including Chiari Malformation, and works closely with the non-profit organization, The Chiari Project, writing for their quarterly newsletters.

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Doctors might order a CT or MRI scan for a headache or migraine to put patients» minds at ease about fears that a malignant brain tumor, aneurysm, arteriovenous malformation or other issue might be causing their symptoms.

A particular cause for concern was the increasing number of cases of brain malformations in newborns (microcephaly).

For example, the center's brain malformation study group has identified two genes associated with abnormalities of the corpus callosum, conditions in which the bundle of nerve fibers that connect the brain's two hemispheres is missing or incomplete.

We obtained cortical tissue that was removed during the course of brain surgery to treat patients for vascular malformations of pharmacoresistant epilepsy.

October 27, 2011 Drug treatment shows promise for brain blood vessel abnormality A drug treatment has been proven to prevent lesions from cerebral cavernous malformation — a brain blood vessel abnormality that can cause bleeding, epilepsy and stroke — for the first time in a new study.

The included birth defects were based primarily on case reports of outcomes occurring in association with Zika virus infection during pregnancy; there is more evidence for some of these birth defects than for others, and a causal link has not been established for all.5,10,12,21 - 27 Because much of the focus to date has been on microcephaly and brain abnormalities, data were summarized in 2 mutually exclusive categories: (1) brain abnormalities with or without microcephaly regardless of the presence of additional birth defects and (2) neural tube defects and other early brain malformations, eye abnormalities, and other consequences of central nervous system dysfunction among those without evident brain abnormalities or microcephaly.

As with people, brain surgery is performed on animals for a variety of ailments, including surgical removal of brain tumors, correction of brain anomalies (e.g., Chiara - like malformation), removal of blood clots (e.g. subdural hematoma) and placement of shunts in patients with hydrocephalus.

CM is a boney malformation of the back part of the skull, which results in a skull that is too small for the brain.

As in people, brain surgery is performed for a variety of ailments, including surgical removal of brain tumors, correction of brain anomalies (e.g., Chiari malformation), removal of blood clots (e.g.,