TBPI nerve re-implantation trials not to start until 2007
Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 9:46 am
I just took a look on Prof Raisman's website, to see about any news on his supposed up coming clinical trials to re-implant avulsed nerves for freshly injured Brachial Plexus Injury patients. This is what was posted near the bottom of the first page.
So it looks like things just keep on getting postponed. He's been at this for over 20 years, damn is he patient or what?
Chris
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http://www.ion.ucl.ac.uk/research/hbir/ ... r_unit.htm
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Information for Patients
As of November 2006, we are planning, in collaboration with our surgical colleagues, to carry out a preliminary safety study of the effects of transplanting olfactory ensheathing cells. The timing of this study is not fixed, but we hope it will start some time in 2007. The study will involve around 10 patients who are part of the routine practice of the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and who will be treated within a few days of accidents causing avulsion of the brachial plexus. We do not yet have the technology to tackle other types of injury. The brachial plexus study will take up to 18 months. Where we go from there will depend on the follow-up results of this study showing safety and feasibility.
Further details of the progress of the research will be updated periodically on this website.
So it looks like things just keep on getting postponed. He's been at this for over 20 years, damn is he patient or what?
Chris
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http://www.ion.ucl.ac.uk/research/hbir/ ... r_unit.htm
Quote:
Information for Patients
As of November 2006, we are planning, in collaboration with our surgical colleagues, to carry out a preliminary safety study of the effects of transplanting olfactory ensheathing cells. The timing of this study is not fixed, but we hope it will start some time in 2007. The study will involve around 10 patients who are part of the routine practice of the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and who will be treated within a few days of accidents causing avulsion of the brachial plexus. We do not yet have the technology to tackle other types of injury. The brachial plexus study will take up to 18 months. Where we go from there will depend on the follow-up results of this study showing safety and feasibility.
Further details of the progress of the research will be updated periodically on this website.