The 12-year-old had to have the surgery after a diagnosis with Syringomyelia Chiari Malformation. “All I remember is when they put the mask on me, then I woke up,” Anaya said. But since then ...

In someone with Chiari I, the lowest part of the back ... people will not have any symptoms There's a chance of developing syringomyelia (where a fluid-filled cavity called a syrinx develops ...

WashU Medicine is the lead institution in the Park-Reeves Syringomyelia Research Consortium, with information from more than 1,200 patients with Chiari type-1 to comb for correlations. There are ...