Items Tagged ‘seizures’
November 28, 2012
By Margaret Shepard, Communications Specialist 
Epilepsy surgery ended Tiffany Hanson’s seizures and started a new, active life.
Tags: 2589, 5270, Epilepsy, Mayo Clinic, seizures, temporal lobectomy, Tiffany Hanson
November 23, 2012
Family gives up mashed potatoes in respect of toddler’s restrictive diet
By Margaret Shepard, Communications Specialist
Shelby Birch’s whole family gave up mashed potatoes to help her with a diet that controls her seizures.
Tags: 2589, 5306, 5335, Epilepsy, ketogenic diet, Mayo Clinic, Pediatrics, seizures, Shelby Birch
November 20, 2012
Brain tumor surgery stops seizures
By Margaret Shepard, Communications Specialist
Thorough evaluation at Mayo Clinic solved the mystery of why Emily Crawford was having seizures, and successful removal of a brain tumor stopped them from occurring.
Tags: 5236, 5270, 5292, 5294, 5304, 5306, 5335, Emily Crawford, Mayo Clinic, pediatric neurology, seizures
November 25, 2010
Jacob Harpel’s Thanksgiving Story
Eight-year-old Jacob Harpel from Glencoe, Minn., was diagnosed with a plum-sized brain tumor the day before Thanksgiving last year. He had aggressive brain surgery at Mayo Clinic in August to remove the tumor; with the surgery he had a 50% chance of losing his peripheral vision on one side and a 50% chance of speech […]
Tags: 1136, 2868, 2871, 5279, 5292, 5294, 5306, 5335, brain tumor, Dr. Wetjen, EEG, Neurosurgery
June 15, 2010
Christina George’s Mayo Clinic Story – How the Ketogenic Diet Stopped Her Seizures
Larry and Paulette George had never seen a seizure before when their 7 month old daughter, Christina, began having more than 100 seizures a day. They tried medication after medication, but the seizures wouldn’t stop. Paulette’s sister had heard something about a diet for seizures and mentioned it to them, but when they asked their […]
Tags: 2859, 5292, 5335, Christina George, ketogenic diet, Mayo Clinic, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Paulette George, pediatric neurology, seizures