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Not to be terse, but the first sentence of the article is: “Surgeons at King's College Hospital say the procedure is not a cure, but could be the difference bet
by Fezzik 7y ago
Not to be terse, but the first sentence of the article is: “Surgeons at King's College Hospital say the procedure is not a cure, but could be the difference between some children learning to walk or not...”
- benj111 7y agoThe title says 'fix' it isn't apparent to me where the line between fix and cure lies. I assume somewhere between stopping further damage and starting from a 'better' base, where precisely I don't know, thus my question.
- wincy 7y agoThere’s a lot of issues this doesn’t fix, like a lot (90%+) of spina bifida cases require shunts to drain cranial spinal fluid. Your spinal cord would normally do that. Without that the child will develop hydrocephalus which can cause all sorts of mental issues, in addition to giving the child a sort of “alien head” problem which impacts their ability to fit in. Chiari malformation isn’t fixed by this, which can cause apnea and breath holding in some spina bifida cases. A decent number of children with Chiari 2 get a tracheostomy, which then requires 24 hour care, as the child can no longer audibly cry when on a ventilator, since the vocal cords are bypassed.