Sturge Weber Syndrome

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The patients with the Sturge Weber Syndrome are usually only
impaired on one side of their physique. They experience slow reflexes or
the inability to even move a limb opposite the port-wine stain.
Retardation is by far the worst of all effects. Most do not endure
retardation, but in some causes the extent has been ghastly. On an average
40% of the underprivileged suffering from the Sturge Weber Syndrome has
some degree of retardation. Glaucoma effects only 30% of the patient, but
usually is restricted to on eye and, occurs in later years of their lives.
A port-wine stain is another effect that is on the side of the face even
before birth. It is very noticeable and is applied to almost every patient
with the Sturge Weber Syndrome, but in very rare cases the port-wine stain,
also known as cutaneous hemangioma, is absent. The stain varies in color
from light pink to dark purplish-red, and tends to get darker in time.
Patients also develop epilepsy (also known as a seizure disorder). ...

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by drugs. In most situations surgeons
are hesitant to operate in such a risky procedure. For epilepsy drugs are
used to relieve the harshness, but their is a radical new process. Doctors
from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston have transplanted about
half a million fetal pig brain cells (about the si ze of two droplets of
water) into the brain of a middle-aged man who has severe epilepsy. This is
the first time such a transplant has been tried to treat epilepsy, although
similar pig-to-person brain cell transplants have been tried on people
suffering from Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease. The hope is
that the pig brain cells will survive, make ...

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