Slicing a Brain In Half To Treat Epilepsy - Georgia Ramantani, University Children's Hospital Zürich, Switzerland
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Hear about hemispherotomies (type of epilepsy surgery) and how they benefit a child's life - from epileptologist Georgia Ramantani, Switzerland! This is part 1 of 2.
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Georgia intro
Whole family included in child's healthcare
Hemispherectomy vs hemispherotomy
Candidates, results and benefits
Success measurement
Who is a candidate for a hemispherotomy?
Risks of surgery (mortality and morbidity)
Success measurement of patients after surgery
Common brain issues prior to surgery
Life with Half a Brain can be great
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Georgia, MD, PhD, is a peadiatrician, child neurologist, and epileptologist, currently heading the EEG & Epilepsy Unit at the Department of Neuropeadiatrics, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Switzerland. She previously was the Head of the Peadiatric Epilepsy Surgery Program at the University of Freiburg, Germany.
Georgia graduated from the University of Thessaloniki Medical School in Greece and completed her post-graduate training in peadiatrics, neuropeadiatrics, and epileptology in Heidelberg, Dresden, and Freiburg, Germany, as well as in Tokyo, Japan, and Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She received a doctorate degree in medicine from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and a PhD on signal analysis from the University of Lorraine, France. Dr. Ramantani joined the medical faculty of the University of Freiburg as an assistant professor for neuropeadiatrics and epileptology in 2014.
Georgia's main area of interest is in improving diagnostic tools for refractory focal epilepsy, particularly in the context of epilepsy surgery, as well as developing prognostic tools for outcome prediction after acute brain insults, particularly in the context of neonatal seizures. She is currently involved in several European joint studies and has received several international awards and scholarships.
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