Young Mother with Rare, Deadly Bone Disease Can Now Cuddle Her Baby Again After “Last Resort” Spinal Fusion Surgery
Cedars-SinaiFor the first time in months, Laurie Harms is able to pick up and cuddle her baby girl. The young mother has a devastating and very rare bone-eroding disease – called Gorham-Stout syndrome – it is so rare that only 200 cases of it have been documented worldwide. Four neurosurgeons had already given up on her before she was referred last March to Cedars- Sinai Medical Center where she underwent a complex and innovative "last resort" spinal fusion surgery.