KUWAIT - Has anyone heard
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 11:55 am
So has anyone heard what has happened in Kuwait
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Does anyone have a link to the Dr. Sinan youtube video? I am very curious about his techniques.Cece wrote:It has been said (but nothing published) that Dr. Sinan of Kuwait has done over 200 procedures. He uses aggressive ballooning since he is not allowed to use stents. He is said to be finding restenosis rates of 2% (meaning that 98% of his patients did not restenose) at three months post-procedure. If accurate, those are unprecedented results for CCSVI. He also has an innovative technique where he balloons the azygous lightly as a diagnostic tool and then balloons big if he finds anything. He spoke at the Brooklyn CCSVI symposium hosted by Dr. Sclafani in July, these vids can be watched on youtube.
The linkDonnchadh wrote:Does anyone have a link to the Dr. Sinan youtube video? I am very curious about his techniques.Cece wrote:It has been said (but nothing published) that Dr. Sinan of Kuwait has done over 200 procedures. He uses aggressive ballooning since he is not allowed to use stents. He is said to be finding restenosis rates of 2% (meaning that 98% of his patients did not restenose) at three months post-procedure. If accurate, those are unprecedented results for CCSVI. He also has an innovative technique where he balloons the azygous lightly as a diagnostic tool and then balloons big if he finds anything. He spoke at the Brooklyn CCSVI symposium hosted by Dr. Sclafani in July, these vids can be watched on youtube.
Donnchadh
Donnchadh wrote:Does anyone have a link to the Dr. Sinan youtube video? I am very curious about his techniques.Cece wrote:It has been said (but nothing published) that Dr. Sinan of Kuwait has done over 200 procedures. He uses aggressive ballooning since he is not allowed to use stents. He is said to be finding restenosis rates of 2% (meaning that 98% of his patients did not restenose) at three months post-procedure. If accurate, those are unprecedented results for CCSVI. He also has an innovative technique where he balloons the azygous lightly as a diagnostic tool and then balloons big if he finds anything. He spoke at the Brooklyn CCSVI symposium hosted by Dr. Sclafani in July, these vids can be watched on youtube.
Donnchadh
Data from medical tourism is going to compromised by difficulty in obtaining accurate followup.Drury wrote:David and Cece,I am with you both too. Just wish all doctors could be on the same page.
There was a case I saw a month or so ago on this site of another person being treated by Dr. Sinan in Egypt rather than Kuwait, who did not have good results. I cannot find it (sorry I'm useless with computers) but think they were quite a bit worse off than before they went.
Drury
What makes you believe his findings are real? I am just curious.Cece wrote:David, I'm with you, I think what Dr. Sinan is finding is real, so the difference between his 95% azygous stenosis findings and the percentage of what the other docs are finding there (Simka's results were recently posted, it was a really low figure) would be the missed azygous stenosis group, IMO.
I don't call it medical tourism for Liberation treatments not available locally. I got no tours as freebies with my trip to Albany. Those physicians who choose to run a clinical trial, and do arrange local follow-up for and with their patients, are not compromised in any way. They have just enlisted local physicians to take part in their trial.drsclafani wrote: Data from medical tourism is going to compromised by difficulty in obtaining accurate followup.
I need to see a publication
Hi, 1eye!1eye wrote:I don't call it medical tourism for Liberation treatments not available locally.
I agree with Cece. The methods, both of Dr. Sinan and with IVUS, are likely to find stenoses and CVMs, where a fluoroscope would miss them. As the paper I quoted yesterday said, IVUS is also likely to be very helpful in preventing damage to real valves.scorpion wrote:What makes you believe his findings are real? I am just curious.Cece wrote:David, I'm with you, I think what Dr. Sinan is finding is real, so the difference between his 95% azygous stenosis findings and the percentage of what the other docs are finding there (Simka's results were recently posted, it was a really low figure) would be o the missed azygous stenosis group, IMO.