As I teach disabilities and we talk about causes, treatment etc. Certain disabilities like intelectual impairment and autism along with epilepsy where cause is microcephaly, low birth weight still there is no treatment. It's life time dependency on medicine to avoid fits.
If everyone cared like you, Ms. Yadav, we ought to be further along in mastering these challenges!
Having had to do pneumencephalography on hydrocephalic infants in the early 1970s, I wondered why no one examined the venous drainage here.
Even more so in MS: Maybe you can make sense of www.ms-info.net?
Treating congenital abnormalities remains challenging due to several factors:
1. Genetic complexity: many are caused by complex genetic mutations that are hard to target or correct.
2. Early development: abnormalities arise early in fetal development, often before detection, making intervention difficult.
3. In- utero treatment risks: fetal treatments, like gene editing, are experimental and pose risks to both mother and fetus.
4. Environmental influences: some defects are triggered by prenatal exposures which are not always preventable.
These challenges mean that current approaches focus mainly on symptom management rather than cures, though future research in gene therapy and regenerative medicine offers hope.
It's good to see you realize that "current approaches focus mainly on symptom management rather than [causally, etiologically, or just pathogenetically orientated, physically grounded] cures," Dr. Agbo.
... By the way: Should "congenital" be understood as (we were taught to do!) sth. Hereditary, gene-determined, or as connatal, by anything?
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