Re: Re: Discouraging News and Questions

[Guest guest]

Eurico,

This is what I have been trying to say all along. The doctors you

listed in your post are among the few that are pioneers in the knowledge

that minimal herniations to no herniations(with cerebellar/brainstem

compression) can cause symptoms related to decreased CSF flow. They have

also proven that decompression surgery will cause a syngomyelia(syrnx)

to resolve on its own without a shunt.

If you go to the AANS site and read the abstracts of the discuused

items for the 2000 convention, you will find they are addressing the

issue of the problems with shunts such as infection, shifting from their

insertion site to cause further damage, etc..Yet, these pioneer doctors

have proved with MRI documentation, that many if not most(NOT all)

syringomyelias will resolve on their own without the intoduction of

foreign bodies such as shunts if they do decompression surgery. So if

theAANS is complaining in general about shunts, why are they not willing

to give these doctors' methods a chance?! I believe that medicine has

its politics just as everything else does.

Debbie