Buffalo - is private pay for doppler an option now?

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Buffalo - is private pay for doppler an option now?

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I've read a few posts where people state they have had dopplers done at Buffalo and are getting the results. This makes me think it is not as part of a study.

Can anyone who has had this done as a private paying patient at Buffalo per the Zamboni protocol and been able to get a copy of the test verify this is an option?
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SaintLouis,

I think that Buffalo clinical trial participants are given a DVD with their MRI scans but not their MRV or doppler ultrasound results. I've never read a post about any private imaging.

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Hi Saint Louis,
Go to Introduction thread down about 18 topics see MRV In Canada by annad and read posts the info on Buffalo private imaging is there
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Thank you-I looked where you indicated and found the thread.
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I wet to Buffalo. I got my disk of the mri and mrv, no reports, no doppler. The others I know who went got the same thing. We went in September and October. I don't know what they are doing now.

The transcranial doppler is the best tool for flow issues. The mri is not useful as a ccsvi diagnostic tool and the mrv was not a good enough scan to make a diagnosis with, according to a radiologist who read it for me.
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Saint Louis,
Call the Seton Imaging Center at number listed and request specific informatioonequipment . We had MRV onboth internal jugs and aygous vein done in mid Dec. I believe they now have Doppler capability.
Give them call to satisfy your concerns. It is a new and moving technology.
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Thats interesting that Seton is dong them. For others thats a large MRI company in Buffalo. Are they doing doppler too?
I had another doctor tell me that they were trying to hire an nterventional radiologist there.
The problem in Buffalo is you can get diagnosed, but can't get fixed!
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