As captain of her high school cheerleading squad, Brittany Irwin was the picture of health. Hidden in her brain, though, was a condition that was about to take over her life. “I had headaches since I was in 7th grade—small ones at the back of my head,” says Brittany, “But I thought that...

For a long time, when children were diagnosed with Chiari malformation type I (CMI), they were automatically pulled from all sports and rough play in an effort to protect them from injury. It was assumed that their neurological condition, whether symptomatic or not, was precarious enough that the...

Dr. Neil Feldstein from the Pediatric Neurosurgery Center recently spoke at the Annual Meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons.  He was part of a panel of presenters on Surgical Management of Chiari and Syringomyelia.   In particular he spoke about the management of Chiari I Malformations...

Last year Tom and Terri Hughes sat in a tidy hospital waiting room while their 13 year old son Troy underwent brain surgery.  Hours later, when Troy's surgeon, Dr. Neil A. Feldstein from the Pediatric Neurosurgery Center emerged from the operating room and asked Tom and Terri into a small...

Surgeons* at the Pediatric Neurosurgery Center treat a number of children with a neurological birth defect called Chiari Malformation (CM).  Increasingly, they are finding that the most risky part of their surgical treatment, that is, opening the dura, may not always be necessary.  They...

A young boy with a rare case of  Type One Chiari Malformation (CMI) was the first to undergo a new minimally invasive spine surgery through his nose.  Dr. Richard Anderson from the Pediatric Center and his colleagues presented this case at the annual Pediatric Neurosurgery Section meeting...

This year at the annual meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) they added pediatrics to their Integrated Medical Learning (IML) program.  Dr. Neil Feldstein from the Pediatric Neurosurgery Center was one of the presenters during a session on the surgical management of Chiari Malfo...