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Surgery alleviates epilepsy seizures for 8 yr old
Updated: Tuesday, 10 Aug 2010, 3:22 PM EDT
Published : Tuesday, 10 Aug 2010, 3:22 PM EDT
ORLANDO, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - Eight-year-old Breanna Osborn has suffered with epilepsy for most of her young life. Doctors have tried diets and medications to control the seizures that have hampered her development, but nothing has worked until now.
Christopher Gegg, M.D., pediatric neurosurgeon at Arnold Palmer Hospital successfully performed an electrocardiography and surgical resection of Breanna's brain to alleviate the seizures that have controlled her for years.
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