A patient with spinal cord interrupted Dariusz Fidyk at a press conference on the progress of a patient after innovative surgery at the University Hospital in Wroclaw photo:
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– managed to develop an original, safe method of treatment of patients with spinal cord interrupted – says Professor Vladimir Jarmundowicz of the Chair and Department of Neurosurgery, Medical University of Wroclaw. Effects of research Wroclaw neurosurgeons give hope to the sick convicts wheelchair.
At the press conference, said the professor, the work started in 2002, participated in them the whole team of specialists. Long-lasting experimental phase involving animals. – The success of the operation in a patient with interrupted spinal cord is the result of several years of work. 40-year-old Darius Fidyk is the fourth, which przeszczepiliśmy olfactory ensheathing cells – says Vladimir Jarmundowicz and adds that “at the site of spinal cord injury scar removed, transplanted in place of loss of peripheral nerves.” He added that a good outcome, it is also thanks to proper rehabilitation.
“Recruitment of patients open to the whole world”
Operations carried out in 2012, Dr. Paul Tabakov from Wroclaw Medical University. Two years after the transplant, the patient regains feeling in his feet and his first steps.
– These results are promising, but need to confirm it, and why we need more such operations and, therefore, subsequent patients. Such a patient in Poland every five years can happen. In China, four patients per year. The rarity of this type of spinal injury makes the recruitment of patients will be open to the whole world – says the doctor.
Therefore, Polish and British scientists who have made groundbreaking surgery recovery spinal cord paralyzed patient already gearing up for next this type of operation. In a few months they start an official search for candidates.
Rector of the Medical University in Wroclaw and director of the University Hospital has agreed to further tests, says Dr. Paul Tabakov and adds that funding to ensure, inter alia, the British foundations. The final results of subsequent operations are expected to be roughly five years.
“I’ve been waiting forty years for this moment”
Last night, in the program “Panorama” in British BBC also said a breakthrough in neurosurgery, presenting the first ever case of merger broken spinal cord.
Pioneering techniques used in Wroclaw, British Professor Geoff Raisman said for this view: “It makes a bigger impression than a man walking on the moon. “
expert, Professor Wagih El Masri, a prominent specialist in post-traumatic rehabilitation, imported by the program” Panorama “to Wroclaw, stated:” I waited forty years for this moment and I am hopeful that this moment will be repeated and confirmed. ”
Dariusz Fidyk, who trains intensively for 5 hours a day, five days a week, told the BBC: “When it starts to come back feeling, man anew (is born).”
The BBC had yet one character. David Nicoll – founder of the foundation, which has raised a million pounds and has enabled the progress of research, he did it for his son, paralyzed after an accident. He promised him that he would do anything to put him back on his feet: “I think I kept my word. This is important to me.”
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