Dandy-Walker Syndrome, also known as Dandy-Walker Malformation (DWM), is a rare disorder that causes a brain malformation during embryonic development of the cerebellum and fourth ventricle. DWM is characterized by the underdevelopment of the middle section of the cerebellum, cystic enlargement of the fourth ventricle and enlargement of the base of the skull, which leads to abnormally high pressure within the skull and swelling of the head, and can cause neurological impairment. Symptoms also include a depleted motor development in infants, depleted Hydrocephalus, increased irritability, nausea, vomiting, convulsions and lack of muscle coordination.
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Brothers doc emailed him telling him what neurologist said
My parents and myself strongly feel that the dandy walkers that my brother has is what's affecting his emotions and outbursts. He hasn't gotten an MRI scan done since he was 18 years old. My brother is now 28 and still struggling to control his feelings and thoughts and seemed to have gotten worse with age. We kept pushing him to try to ask for an MRI scan and my bro gets defensive cause he doesn't want to get it done. I got him to email his doc about it and his doc said he would email a neurologist asking if an MRI scan would be good since he hasn't had one in years and he got an email back today saying no it wouldn't do anything since there are no new symptoms. i think it's absolute bullshit because there's a chance this dandywalkers is affecting his brain and im so upset because this adds to my brother thinking he doesn't need to get a scan done. An MRI scan would tell us if there is any pressure being put on his brain. #DandyWalkerSyndrome
My daughter had her first visibly recognizable seizure 15 years ago this month (April 15, 2004), it was extremely tough to watch my child go from blank stares that I could not get her to break from to a completely stiff body then full body, uncontrollable jerks. We thought this may have been cause by an illness, a fever until it happened again, and different instances of stares, some quick moments of the jerking. I can’t remember the date when she was officially diagnosed with a seizure disorder/epilepsy but, I know she’s had a long history of mixed seizure types; Grand mal, generalized tonic-clonic (with clusters), myoclonic (jerking), dialectic (staring), nocturnal. All of that lead her neurologist diagnosing her with Intractable& catamenial epilepsy. On March 12th, she was implanted with the Cyberonics SenTiva for VNS therapy to help her with intractable . Intractable are seizures that fail to come under control easily with medication. VNS- vagus nerve stimulation is supposed to help reduce the frequency and intensity of seizures. It’s been 6 weeks/42 days since “implantable parts” have been placed with hopes of helping with her fight against seizures, how is it going? Have the seizures stopped? • Things are going well! I’m thankful we decided to get the VNS. The seizures have not completely stopped. However, they have NOT grown in rapid intensity like they used to before VNS. In the past, I have watched Kerstin start having small seizures that may start with a stare, then the face twitches increasing to the jerking and the only thing that could be done was staying close to her, reassuring her that I was there, hoping it would soon stop. Sometimes they would, a lot of times they would not, causing a need for Diastat or at really bad seizures she would need 2. The aftermath; she would be so groggy, sleeping for hours and hours. Since VNS placement, when a seizure is spotted, a swipe is given, sends pulses thru the nerve to her brain to slow the activity. We journey on! 💚 💜 #VNS#Epilepsy#SeizureDisorder#Seizures#IntractableEpilepsy #Myoclonic #Dialeptic #NocturnalSeizures #CatamenialSeizures #DandyWalkerSyndrome #SpasticQuadriparesis #DevelopmentalDelay
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