Music to a mother’s ears: Awake craniotomies bring musicians together
Witnessing her adult son, Adrian, suffer a severe seizure at their home in the Rio Grande Valley during the spring of 2022 was nerve-wracking. Finding out a few months later that it was caused by a brain tumor called astrocytoma was devastating.Â
But when Gloria Rivas learned that Adrian’s neurosurgeon, Sujit Prabhu, M.D., wanted to perform an awake craniotomy on her son to treat it, she was astonished.
“It absolutely...
Hematochezia vs. melena: What’s the difference?
Hematochezia and melena are two terms that describe different ways blood can appear in your stool.
Hematochezia is bright red blood that...