A two-year-old girl from Tajikistan, born with a medical condition that caused her head to swell, received a new lease life after undergoing multiple surgeries over a period of five months at a hospital in Gurgaon.
Maryam suffered from congenital hydrocephalus with megalencephaly -- a growth developmental disorder in which the brain is abnormally large, hospital authorities said today.
She was born with 'hydrocephalus', a condition in which the fluid is collected in the brain causing the size of the head to increase, they said.
"The usual treatment for such a condition is to perform a VP shunt surgery. This involves installing a small tube in the brain to drain the excess fluid. This surgery was performed (in Tajikistan) when Marayam was just 11 months old," the
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