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KIWI INVENTION BRINGS RENEWED HOPE FOR MILLIONS OF HYDROCEPHALUS SUFFERERS

There's renewed hope for the 100 Kiwis who are diagnosed with hydrocephalus, or fluid on the brain, every year.


Article source: Adam Hollingworth, Newshub


The Kiwi inventors of a world-first monitor for the condition hope to take their invention worldwide.


For 50 years, hydrocephalus has been treated by inserting a tube from the brain down to the stomach to drain the fluid.

But more often than not that shunt will go wrong - with potentially fatal consequences. In fact, it can kill you in a day unless you can get to hospital.


That was a reality the parents of Will Muir lived with for the five-and-a-half years he lived.

"In personality he was very lively and spirited and was generally a very happy kid," said his father, Jeremy Muir.


His mother Catherine Burnet agreed: "He was nice to have around, he was a happy chappy."


Will was happy but not healthy. At three months, he was diagnosed with a brain tumour that also caused hydrocephalus which blocked the plumbing in his brain. It meant surgery then the insertion of a shunt to ease the pressure but which failed multiple times with little warning.



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