UK Boy Oran Knowlson Receives World’s First Skull-Inserted Epilepsy Device
Oran Knowlson, a Somerset child, is the world’s first patient to test an advanced neurostimulator device attached to his skull.
According to ‘Metro’ reports, this device has significantly improved his quality of life by reducing his daily seizures by 80%.
Oran, 13, was diagnosed with Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome when he was three years old, a severe form of epilepsy that is difficult to treat.
He might fall, shake uncontrollably, and lose sleep as a result of the multiple seizures he has every day — sometimes hundreds of them. His breathing becomes uncontrolled during severe seizures, needed emergency care.
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