Inducing strokes in newborns to treat hemimegalencephaly February 3, 2023

https://innovationdistrict.childrensnational.org/inducing-strokes-in-newborns-to-treat-hemimegalencephaly/ A team at Children’s National Hospital has pioneered an approach to treat hemimegalencephaly (HME) by inducing controlled strokes to eliminate the affected part of the brain, halting seizures in their tracks. The procedure, called an endovascular embolic hemispherectomy, can be safely used to provide definitive treatment of HME-related epilepsy in neonates and young infants. In this collection of videos, we describe the procedure and explain why Children's National is the only center in the world capable of providing this treatment.