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Article: Docs cut Janine's brain in two.
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- Sunderland Echo (Pennywell, England)
- Article date:
- December 13, 2007
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Surgeons have divided a Sunderland girl's brain in two to save her from a rare disease.
From the age of seven, Janine Leach's life was plagued by epileptic fits, at one point having 100 seizures a day.
The youngster, of Farringdon, was 11 when doctors discovered she had a deadly disorder, Rasmussen's Encephalitis, eating away at her brain.
Experts said the only cure for Janine, now 15, was a high-risk operation, to cut away the diseased half of her brain, which could leave her permanently disabled.
However, rather than remove it, surgeons have left this part of the brain inside her skull in a bid to prevent an increased risk of blood ...