Brno neurosurgeons perform unique brain surgery on six-months-old child

Neurosurgeons from the University Hospital Brno in cooperation with the University Hospital Geneva performed unique brain surgery on a six-month-old child, the Czech News Agency reported on Tuesday.The baby was born in January with hemimegaencephaly, which causes one of the brain hemispheres to grow abnormally. It had caused Oliver frequent epileptic seizures since birth.

In a surgery performed in June, the doctors disconnected part of the brain’s hemisphere of the brain. According to the head of the neurosurgery clinic in Brno, the baby is doing well and his psychomotor development is expected to be very good.