Manipal Hospitals Baner performs Vagus Nerve Stimulation Surgery on 9-year-old boy
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Doctors at Manipal Hospitals Baner have successfully performed Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) Surgery on 9-year-old boy from Bengaluru.
For the last five years, boy had been suffering from drug resistant multi focal epilepsy. The child's speech, movement, and cognitive brain function were all affected by the daily recurrent seizures that he had despite taking several medications. He had developed epileptic encephalopathy and had regression of milestones.
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