home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!pitt!geb
- From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Preventing spread of late-term RSD
- Message-ID: <17924@pitt.UUCP>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 01:44:05 GMT
- References: <BzFv85.BFE@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.pitt.edu
- Reply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
- Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science
- Lines: 21
-
- In article <BzFv85.BFE@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> graham@venus.iucf.indiana.edu writes:
- >
- >Finally, assume that all "standard" forms of treatment and therapy have
- >been exhausted, such as nerve blocks, surgical sympathectomy, physical
- >therapy, etc., and are no longer effective.
- >
- >Would it be a safe bet to say that amputation of the leg, say 5-6
- >inches below the knee would stop it from spreading further?
- >
-
- Absolutely not! The problem is most likely central to the site of amputation,
- in the ganglia, not in the sympathetic axons. I've seen 2 cases of
- amputation for RSD, both of which were disasters, one of which resulting
- in a malpractice suit against the surgeon. It would be amazing if
- surgeons can still be found to consider such a procedure.
-
- --
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Gordon Banks N3JXP | "I have given you an argument; I am not obliged
- geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | to supply you with an understanding." -S.Johnson
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-