Surgeons at Jacksonville, Fla.-based Wolfson Children's Hospital performed the first procedure to treat a ruptured aneurysm on a pediatric patient using the Pipeline Embolization Device, according to Juice, a health news source from Jacksonville-based Baptist Health.
Six-year-old Jaydon Hogan underwent the procedure in January 2017 at Wolfson Children's Hospital after being diagnosed with a subarachnoid hemorrhage that was preventing his spinal fluid from properly draining.
Alexandra Beier, DO, a neurosurgeon and assistant professor in the neurosurgery department at the University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville, and Ricardo Hanel, MD, PhD, an endovascular neurosurgeon at Baptist Health, treated Jaydon.
"He had a ruptured aneurysm that Dr. Hanel was able to treat successfully with the Pipeline procedure," Dr. Beier told Juice. "We were very fortunate to have Dr. Hanel on this case."
Dr. Hanel co-authored a study on the benefits of using the Pipeline device to treat smaller aneurysms last year.
Jaydon stayed in Wolfson Children's pediatric intensive care and neuroscience units for two and a half weeks after the procedure. During a six-month checkup, diagnostic imaging confirmed the aneurysm was cured.
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