Wirginia Juni Maixner (born June 28, 1963) is an Australian neurosurgeon and director of neurosurgery at Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. He is known for having performed the first hearing implant of a child in Australia in 2007, and then after separating the conjoined twins, Trishna and Krishna in 2009.
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Maixner grows on the north coast of Sydney. His father was a window stylist and his mother, a public servant. Inspired by her aunt who is the first female flying doctor in Australia, she pursues a career in medicine and surgery.
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Early life and education
Maixner attended Sancta Sophia College, the University of Sydney, and in 1986 graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery.
Surgical training
She became the third woman to be admitted to the four-year program of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. In the early 1990s, when halfway through his training, he was pregnant with his daughter. She remains on the program and became the first person to be granted maternity leave by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Maixner went on to complete his training as a single parent and then spent two years in Paris and Canada gaining international hospital experience.
Careers
Maixner was appointed to the position of Director of the Department of Neurosurgery at the Royal Children's Hospital in 2001, becoming one of the youngest heads of neurosurgery departments in Australia and the first female head of surgery at Children's Hospital.
From October 2001 to July 2004, Maixner served on the Victoria Surgical Consultative Council, a special purpose board established in 2001 by then Health Minister John Thwaites, who reported to the Health Minister and analyzed, studied and reported the possibility of preventable surgery. deaths in Victoria, with the aim of improving the safety and quality of operations in Victoria.
Achievements
In 2006, Maixner was credited with performing a "breakthrough" operation when he operated on a three-year-old girl to successfully stop a seizure caused by a rare genetic condition. Maixner told the media at the time that the operation was just as complicated as open heart surgery.
On May 16, 2007, Maixner worked with Rob Briggs, medical director of the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital's Cochlear Implant Clinic and used their "pioneering technology" to conduct the first auditory brainstem in a child in Australasia. At that time, the operation was hailed as an advancement that "paved the way for revolutionary advances in medicine".
Between 30-31 August 2009, Maixner presented at the World Congress of Neurological Surgery XIV in Boston, Massachusetts as a faculty member of the "Pediatric Neurosurgery: An Overview with Application Sub-Program" and as a panelist on "Chiari Type I Malformations in the Children's Discussion Panels. child.
On November 16 and 17, 2009, Maixner led a team of 16 neurosurgeons, plastic surgeons, and other specialist medical staff at Royal Children's Hospital in a 32-hour "breakthrough operation" to successfully separate three-year-old twin Bangladeshi twins Trishna and Krishna. The twins were discovered in 2007 by two Australian volunteers at the Mother Teresa orphanage in Dhaka and taken to Australia by Moira Kelly and the First Child Foundation for life-saving medical care, involving a series of operations in January, February, March, May, October, and November 2008 and January and August 2009, in preparation for the final separation in November 2009. Maixner has performed four major surgeries on the twins to separate and close the joint veins and enter the tissue enlargement and prior to the last surgery, he gave the twins a 25 percent to survive surgery, 25 percent chance of dying and 50 percent chance of suffering "catastrophic" brain damage, but without surgical intervention, both children will die. On November 19, 2009, Maixner told the press that Trishna had awakened from a medical-induced coma. Krishna began waking on November 20, 2009. On December 21, 2009, five weeks after the operation to separate the twins, they were released from the hospital.
On November 26, 2009, Maixner and other members of the medical and surgical team treating Trishna and Krishna were honored with a reception held at the Government House in Melbourne by Victorian Governor David de Kretser and Premier John Brumby.
Maixner and fellow surgeons at Royal Children's Hospital Alison Wray were seated for Australian artist Raelene Sharp in December 2009. Sharp's portrait of the surgeon was submitted to the Australian portrait competition, Archibald Prize. The competition was rated in March 2010 and brought the A $ 50,000 prize. Maixner was also featured in a photo shoot by The Australian Women's Weekly in December 2009.
Publications
- Maixner, Wirginia J. (Editor), and Cinalli, Giuseppe (Editor), Sainte-Rose, Christian (Editor), Pediatric Hydrocephalus , Springer, USA, November 9, 2004, ISBNÃ, 88-470-0225-7
- Maixner, Wirginia; Kornberg, Andrew; Harvey, Simon; Nash, Margot; "Neurological Conditions", in the Pediatric Handbook, Wiley-Blackwell, August 5, 2005, ISBN 978-0-86793-431-1
- Maixner, Wirginia J. (Editor), and ÃÆ' â € "zek, M. Memet, (Editor), Cinalli, Giuseppe (Editor), Spina Bifida: Management and Results, Springer, USA, i> July 7, 2008, ISBNÃ, 88-470-0650-3
- Maxiner, Wirginia; Skelton, Ruth; Isaacs, David; "Systeritis-induced subdural empyema", Disease in Childhood - The Journal of the British Pediatric Association , December 1992
- Maixner, Wirginia; Sekhon, Lali H. S.; Morgan, Michael K.; Besser, Michael; "Controversy in the Management of the Brainstem of Cavernous Angioma: A Report of Two Cases", Journal of Surgery , 1992 62 (10) 763-767
- Maixner, Wirginia; Caruso, Denise A.; Orme, Lisa M.; Neale, Alana M.; Radcliff, Fiona J.; Amor, Gerlinda M.; Downie, Peter; Hassall, Timothy E.; Tang, Mimi L.K.; and Ashley, David M.; "Results from a phase 1 study utilizing dendritic cells derived from pulmonary monocytes with tumor RNA in children and young adults with brain cancer", Neuro-Oncology , 2004 6 (3): 236-246
- Maixner, Wirginia; Aziz, Azian Abd.; Coleman, Lee; Morokoff, Andrew; "Diffuse colloidal plexus hyperplasia: the cause of undiagnosed hydrocephalus in children?", Pediatric Radiology , Volume 35, Number 8, August 2005
- Maixner Wirginia; Heggie AA; Holmes A; Greensmith A; Meara J; Low P; "Complete correction of severe scaphocephaly: total renovation of dome with occipital elevation", International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery , 2005; 34 (Supp 1-029.1): 57.
- Maixner, Wirginia, "Hypothalamic hamartomas - clinical, neuropathological and surgical aspects", Child Nervous System , Volume 22, Number 8, August 2006
- Maixner, Wirginia; Haloi, Achyut K.; Ditchfield, Michael; "Mucocele from sphenoid sinus", Children's Radiology , Volume 36, Number 9, September 2006
- Maixner, Wirginia, and Stargatt, Robyn; Rosenfeld, Jeffrey V.; Anderson, Vicki; Hassall, Timothy; Ashley, David; "Intelligence and adaptive function in children diagnosed with brain tumors during infancy", Journal of Neuro-Oncology , Volume 80, No. 3, December 2006
- Maixner, Wirginia; Gonzales, Michael; Dale, Susan; Susman, Marleen; Nolan, Prudence; Ng Wai, Hoe; Laidlaw, John; "Dysembryoplastic neuralepithelial tumor tumors (DNT) -as oligodendroglioma or Dnts evolved into oligodendroglioma: two illustrative cases", Neuropathology: the official journals of the Japanese Society of Neuropathology , 2007; 27 (4): 324-30
- Maixner, Wirginia; Josan, Vivek; Smith, Paul; Kornberg, Andrew; Rickert, Christian; "Development of pilocytic astrocytoma in disembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumors, case report", Journal of Neurosurgery , 2007; 106 (6 Suppl): 509-12
- Maixner, Wirginia; Stargatt, Robyn; Rosenfeld, Jeffrey V; Ã,; Ashley, David; "Several factors contribute to neuropsychological outcomes in children with posterior fossa tumors", Development of Neuropsychology , 2007; 32 (2): 729-48
- Maixner, W, and Poomthavorn, P, Zacharin, M, "Pituitary function in children who survived severe traumatic brain injury", Archives of Disease in Childhood, February 2008; 93: 133-137
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