New Surgery for Chiari...New Surgery for MS - Links?
Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 3:41 pm
My aplogies if this has been discussed here before, but I caught a bit of this on my local news station tonight and did a preliminary search...
So here's a Dr (Chief of Neuosurgery at Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas) treating a known condition with "new" surgery.
By the sounds of things so far (and admittedly I've not delved too far into this), this surgery has not been done before on Chiari Malformation patients.
At first glance, there seems to some points of intersection with MS/CCSVI (new surgery, not been performed before in CM patients etc etc)
It would be interesting to know how he managed to do this surgery, i.e ...were there IRB's to contend with...was there a demand for large scale, double blinded, placebo controlled studies? Were those studies done? What were the results? Is this just an "abberation" of the US private hospital system (I'm Canadian and not so knowledgeable about how it all works for you folks south of the border)?
Maybe I'm making much ado about nothing...or maybe Dr Seiff's experience has something to teach us?
The links below are a start for anyone who may be interested in checking this out.
Any and all thoughts welcome.
Be well all,
Hope
In the Press:
Surgery for Chiari Malformation:
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?sectio ... id=7496714
Dr Michael Seiff (short Bio) notice the links to MS
<shortened url>
Interview with Dr Seiff re: Chiari Malformation: Michael Seiff, M.D., Chief of Division of Neurosurgery, Sunrise Hospital, talks about Chiari malformation and how to treat it…
I found this quite intriguiging...
http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_chann ... ryid=24444
So here's a Dr (Chief of Neuosurgery at Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas) treating a known condition with "new" surgery.
By the sounds of things so far (and admittedly I've not delved too far into this), this surgery has not been done before on Chiari Malformation patients.
At first glance, there seems to some points of intersection with MS/CCSVI (new surgery, not been performed before in CM patients etc etc)
It would be interesting to know how he managed to do this surgery, i.e ...were there IRB's to contend with...was there a demand for large scale, double blinded, placebo controlled studies? Were those studies done? What were the results? Is this just an "abberation" of the US private hospital system (I'm Canadian and not so knowledgeable about how it all works for you folks south of the border)?
Maybe I'm making much ado about nothing...or maybe Dr Seiff's experience has something to teach us?
The links below are a start for anyone who may be interested in checking this out.
Any and all thoughts welcome.
Be well all,
Hope
In the Press:
Surgery for Chiari Malformation:
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?sectio ... id=7496714
Dr Michael Seiff (short Bio) notice the links to MS
<shortened url>
Interview with Dr Seiff re: Chiari Malformation: Michael Seiff, M.D., Chief of Division of Neurosurgery, Sunrise Hospital, talks about Chiari malformation and how to treat it…
I found this quite intriguiging...
http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_chann ... ryid=24444