Health & Environment
Hyderabad-Educated Neurologist Leads Breakthrough in Rare Epilepsy Treatment
The New Indian Express2h
THE BRIEF
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Dr. Kavitha Kothur, a paediatric neurologist, helped treat an eight-month-old baby in Sydney who became the first person globally to receive precision medicine for KCNT1-related catastrophic epilepsy.
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The infant, Bohdi Higginson, suffered up to 74 seizures in a single day before receiving his first dose of the targeted treatment on April 21, with his final seizure occurring three days later.
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Dr. Kothur, an alumna of Gandhi Medical College in Hyderabad, utilized the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network’s Innovative Therapies Pathway to fast-track the assessment of the previously untested drug.