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Surgery used to help spinal cord injury patients performed on woman with rare conditionRSS Feed
A procedure that helps people with spinal cord injuries to breathe has been successfully carried out on a patient with a rare disease.
Christina Hamann suffers from a condition called congenital central hypoventilation syndrome, which means she lacks the natural impulse to breathe, the Globe and Mail reports.
Ms Hamann recently underwent surgery in which a pacemaker was installed in her diaphragm. The pacemaker continually stimulates the diaphragm to contract, causing air to be inhaled and exhaled.
Speaking to the newspaper, Roger Goldstein, who is Ms Hamann's physician and head of the respirology division at West Park Healthcare Centre in Toronto, said: "It's a release from being imprisoned by machine day and night."
He went on to say that many spinal cord injury patients have undergone the procedure, including actor Christopher Reeve.
Reeve died of heart failure in 2004 but the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation works to raise money for spinal cord injury research and to help those suffering from paralysis.
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