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A quick comment, Joao Paulo, regarding your statement that pallidotomy loses it's effectiveness in a few years.... That is generally thought to be incorrect by the medical community, I believe... at least according to Dr. Robert Iacona, who to date has preformed more than 1000 pallidotomies. Meanwhile, my unilateral pallidotomy - performed 4 1/2 years ago at Loma Linda Med. Center - continues to give me blessed relief from PD symptoms in my right side. The LEFT side? Well, that's another story (and maybe another pallidotomy eventually) I guess this is a case of "time will tell," whether or not the benefits from the surgery continue on indefinitely tho, huh? Barb Mallut [log in to unmask] ---------- From: Parkinson's Information Exchange on behalf of Joao Paulo Carvalho Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 1998 12:56 PM To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN Subject: Cell transplants --------------4BF8ADA72A53FF1F40BFBFD6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I quote : > Schumacher will report on a study of pig cell transplants later this > month at the annual meeting of the American Association of Neurological > Surgeons. The study was designed to look at the procedure's safety > rather > than effectiveness, and Schumacher said no major side effects appeared. > > Most of the recipients improved to some degree, he said. As a group, > the 11 patients improved about 14 percent on standard rating scales by > six months after surgery and about 20 percent by a year afterward, > Schumacher said. One other patient died from a cause unrelated to the > treatment. > > "The patients continually improve," he said. "They're not made > immediately > better, but they improve over time as the graft matures." > Considering the small improvement (15 to 20 % ) of this risky surgery I would like to ask to the specialists if it would'nt be a good ideia to associate it (perhaps at the same time or not) with a Pallidotomy or else a Talloctomy ? It is known that the improvement with Pallidotomy is noticeable and occurs in few weeks,or rather immediatly but looses effectivness with years ahead. On the other way, the cell transplants seems to improve the symptoms only after long periods of time.The ideia being that the association of both surgeries would add the gains of each one for better. -- +----| Joao Paulo de Carvalho |------ + | [log in to unmask] | +--------| Salvador-Bahia-Brazil |------+ --------------4BF8ADA72A53FF1F40BFBFD6 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <HTML> I quote : <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE>Schumacher will report on a study of pig cell transplants later this month at the annual meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. The study was designed to look at the procedure's safety rather than effectiveness, and Schumacher said no major side effects appeared. Most of the recipients improved to some degree, he said. As a group, the 11 patients improved about 14 percent on standard rating scales by six months after surgery and about 20 percent by a year afterward, Schumacher said. One other patient died from a cause unrelated to the treatment. "The patients continually improve," he said. "They're not made immediately better, but they improve over time as the graft matures."</PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BR>Considering the small improvement (15 to 20 % ) of this risky surgery I would like to ask to the specialists if it would'nt be a good ideia to associate it (perhaps at the same time or not) with a Pallidotomy or else a Talloctomy ? <P>It is known that the improvement with Pallidotomy is noticeable and occurs in few weeks,or rather immediatly but looses effectivness with years ahead. On the other way, the cell transplants seems to improve the symptoms only after long periods of time.The ideia being that the association of both surgeries would add the gains of each one for better. <BR>-- <BR> +----| Joao Paulo de Carvalho |------ + <BR> | [log in to unmask] | <BR> +--------| Salvador-Bahia-Brazil |------+ <BR> </HTML> --------------4BF8ADA72A53FF1F40BFBFD6--