KIWI INVENTION BRINGS RENEWED HOPE FOR MILLIONS OF HYDROCEPHALUS SUFFERERS
- kateormerod
- Feb 21, 2024
- 1 min read
There's renewed hope for the 100 Kiwis who are diagnosed with hydrocephalus, or fluid on the brain, every year.
Article source: Adam Hollingworth, Newshub
The Kiwi inventors of a world-first monitor for the condition hope to take their invention worldwide.
For 50 years, hydrocephalus has been treated by inserting a tube from the brain down to the stomach to drain the fluid.
But more often than not that shunt will go wrong - with potentially fatal consequences. In fact, it can kill you in a day unless you can get to hospital.
That was a reality the parents of Will Muir lived with for the five-and-a-half years he lived.
"In personality he was very lively and spirited and was generally a very happy kid," said his father, Jeremy Muir.
His mother Catherine Burnet agreed: "He was nice to have around, he was a happy chappy."
Will was happy but not healthy. At three months, he was diagnosed with a brain tumour that also caused hydrocephalus which blocked the plumbing in his brain. It meant surgery then the insertion of a shunt to ease the pressure but which failed multiple times with little warning.
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