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Dubai doctors treat teen’s epileptic seizures with smart implant This Vagal Nerve Stimulator device was dubbed the pacemaker for the brain . Supplied photo The high-tech device was among the most advanced in the world. Fourteen-year-old Emirati girl H.A. is now ready to live a better life beyond her epileptic seizures, thanks to a high-tech device that Dubai doctors had implanted underneath her skin. The teen had been suffering from seizures that were drug-resistant. Doctors at Rashid Hospital thoroughly studied her condition and found that she was the right candidate for the ‘most advanced’ type of the smart implant that was dubbed “the pacemaker for the brain”. ....
Supplied Doctors at Dubai s Rashid Hospital have performed a special implant procedure to treat a 14-year-old Emirati girl suffering from drug-resistant epilepsy seizures. They successfully transplanted a device, roughly the size of a one-dirham coin, under the skin of the girl s chest. She is now preparing herself for programming the device and leading a life with seizures that are less severe and less frequent. The Vagal Nerve Stimulator ( VNS) device is sometimes referred to as a pacemaker for the brain as it sends regular and mild impulses of electrical energy to the brain via the vagus nerve, which helps prevent epileptic seizures. ....
Emirati girl undergoes VNS implant procedure in Dubai 06 Jan 2021 Mariecar Jara-Puyod, Senior Reporter An Emirati girl, 14, is looking forward to a better life having become the first recipient outside of Europe and North America, of the most advanced smart and intelligent less-than-the size-of a one dirham coin implant for people with epilepsy. H.A., who, according to Rashid Hospital (Dubai) records, had been suffering from drug-resistant epilepsy seizures, underwent the Vagal Nerve Simulator (VNS) implant procedure a week ago. The medical team was headed by Rashid Hospital-Neurosurgery Department head Dr Abdulla Qassim and Neurology/Epileptilogy consultant Dr Muhammad Al Kaylani. ....