Megan's brain is a little more than half of what is should be: the right side is developed normally, but the left side is minimal. At some points, it seems vanished, other parts there is about 30% of what should normally be there. Sometime during Kimberly's pregnancy, Megan's carotid artery either became deformed, collapsed, or shut down and that caused the flow of blood to her brain on the left to stop. It received blood from veins on the right, but not enough. He is calling it a vascular accident, the same as what happens with a hypoplastic heart in which the aortic arch fails to connect. They say this is so rare they have never seen it before, that there is no name for it, and that there are probably only a handful of children who have ever had this.

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