Word: hydrocephalus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those families that have been singled out by the gods for cruel sport. In 1960, their four-month-old son Theo received multiple skull fractures when his carriage was slammed into the side of a New York City bus by a taxi. The child's injuries resulted in hydrocephalus, a condition in which fluid accumulation causes the skull to enlarge and the brain to compress...
...lecture, Kean is confident that they picked up their parasites from the snack bar's hamburgers. For them, as for most victims, the illness was uncomfortable and not disabling. But Toxoplasma is like rubella in one respect: it wreaks its worst havoc on the unborn child, causing encephalitis, hydrocephalus, heart damage and hepatitis. Says Kean: "If this epidemic had occurred in five pregnant women, the potential danger to their unborn children-either fetal death or severe brain damage-would have been enormous...
...Victims of hydrocephalus whose skulls fail to drain body fluids and thus swell to disproportionate size. Surgically inserted tubes can relieve the condition...
Rather Cheerful. Other abnormal conditions seen at birth are associated with defective genes, but the pattern is more complicated than Mendelian recessive. They produce hydrocephalus (water on the brain), spina bifida (failure of the spinal column to close), harelip and clubfoot. When a couple has had one child with one of these defects, the chance that a later child will have it is in the good-risk range, or about one in 25. "You may think that is rather serious," said Dr. Fraser Roberts, "but we think it is really something rather cheerful. You have to remember there...
...Brain & Heart. Even the hypersensitive brain is amenable to surgery and the implantation of certain plastics. Only ten years ago, a child who was born with or soon developed the condition known as hydrocephalus (water on the brain) was doomed to mental retardation or early death. Today, more than 80,000 youngsters have their brain-drain problem solved by an implanted Silastic tube...