[Perdices, Claudia] Hi George-
I am in Los Angeles at the Neurosciences Institute, Good Samaritan
Hospital where fetal transplant surgeries are performed for PD and HD. If
you have any questions you can call or send me an e-mail. I can also send
you some literature written by our doctors on this procedure.
Claudia Perdices, MSW
National Parkinson Foundation
Patient Services & Outreach Program
Neurosciences Institute
Good Samaritan Hospital
800-841-8765
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>
> Does anyone know the status of the fetal cell transplant operations? There
> are
> at least two sites that are supposedly performing these operations: Denver
> (U
> of Colorado) and Los Angeles. Sweden also may be performing some.
>
> The NIH/Columbia/Denver blind test should be just about wound up. This is
> a
> double blind series of about 40 patients, half of whom got the real
> surgery
> and half got sham operations. They were then to be evaluated for a year.
>
> Is anyone up to speed on transplant surgery? Is it effective? Are all
> symptoms
> improved? Does the effect last? What are the dangers? Are they accepting
> new
> patients and are they performing the surgeries now?
>
> Thanks for any information.
>
> George
