We are delighted that Sophie Strong, a first year medical student, has joined us for 3 weeks this summer to analyse the results from the first 50 laser sweat ablation cases.
As with any new operation, the Laser Sweat Ablation procedure has not given perfect results in everyone - in fact no operation ever gives perfect results in everyone - hence the need for consent and for publishing results and research.
Over the last year and a quarter, we have made many changes to the procedure - gradually improving our understanding of the condition and the operation - as well as finding out who is most suitable for it.
It now looks as though we have identified some of the major factors to detrmine:
1] who is suitable
2] what the optimal techiques are
Over the next 2 weeks we will be analysing our figures and bringing our new understanding into our clinical practice.
The results will be summarised here, but will be presented both nationally and internationally as well as being published.
hi any news on the results
ReplyDeleteYes - Sophie Strong has written up a couple of papers and we are putting them in for publication.
ReplyDeleteI can't give all of the results but basically, people with real hyperhidrosis on our trsts are getting over 80% reduction in sweating on average.
More details should be published later in the year.
excellent news i look forward to learning more about the results.
ReplyDeleteAny update on the results?, I am eagerly waiting
ReplyDeleteYes - Sophie Strong is presenting the one year results at the IMCAS meeting in Paris - Jan 6-9th. The paper is about to be submitted for publication. The next research prject is going through the analysis process at the moment for presentation in Spring / Summer 2011 and we are about to submit ethics applications for 2 new studies in the next couple of months.
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