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    ARMENIAN MAN SEIZURE-FREE FOR FIRST TIME SINCE CHILDHOOD

    CBS News, NY
    Aug 8 2013

    Returns To North Shore University Hospital 23 Years After Heart Surgery

    August 8, 2013 4:16 PM

    NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - Gagik Hovanessian, just 7 years old at the
    time, returned to Armenia in 1990 with his heart newly repaired, but
    he had contracted a severe A surgery has cured a man of an epileptic
    disorder he developed as a child. as a result of the surgery. He
    regularly experienced intense seizures several times a day.

    In May, Hovanessian returned to North Shore University Hospital in
    Manhasset - where he underwent his heart surgery 23 years before -
    to have two more operations performed on him. Now, for the first time
    since he was a child, Hovanessian is seizure-free.

    "Gagik is free of neurological deficit, and he has not had any seizures
    in two months," Dr. Ashesh Mehta, director or epilepsy surgery at
    North Shore, told reporters, including 1010 WINS' Mona Rivera, on
    Thursday. "Great success story. I'm very proud of how he has done."

    Hovanessian first came to North Shore with the help of the Russian Gift
    of Life charity and the Rotary International service organization,
    after being diagnosed with a congenital heart condition known as
    Tetralogy of Fallot, which occurs in about five out of every 10,000
    babies.

    After the surgery, an infection and scar tissue led to the seizures.

    Hovanessian returned to North Shore at age 16, when doctors urged him
    to have brain surgery after he was fully grown. In May, Hovanessian
    and his mother made the trek once again from Armenia to Manhasset,
    where he has undergone two more surgeries - one to implant electrodes
    to pinpoint where the seizures began and what areas were affected,
    and one to remove the area of brain that produced the seizures.

    Since his latest surgery, Hovanessian has not experienced any
    headaches, impairment or memory loss, his doctors said. He was
    discharged June 14 and will soon return home to Armenia, where he
    can finally learn to drive a car.

    "As a mother, I gave birth to him," his mother, Jasmin, said at
    Thursday's news conference through a translator. "But America gave
    him a life."

    http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/08/08/armenian-man-seizure-free-for-first-time-since-childhood/




    From: A. Papazian
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