In 2018, Mora began experiencing seizures again and her team at Cleveland Clinic recommended a second surgery — this time an anatomical hemispherectomy, completely removing the remaining tissue ...

Back in 1986, when the pediatric epilepsy program was just forming at UCLA, Mathern said the most practiced type of this procedure was an anatomic hemispherectomy, in which the entire half of the ...

He required several surgeries, starting when he was 3 1/2 months old, eventually leading to a complete anatomical hemispherectomy, or the removal of half of his brain, when he turned 3.

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Children's Center report that hemispherectomy – a procedure in which half the brain is removed -– may reduce or eliminate severe seizures even in older ...

Anatomical hemispherectomies involve the ... so they have less blood to lose," Mathern says. Most Hopkins hemispherectomy patients are five to 10 years old. Neurosurgeons have performed the ...