With Doctor Evariste Fanorena, neurologist, he implanted in a sixty-year-old suffering from Parkinson’s disease (which affects some 200,000 people in France and which is treated, but unfortunately cannot be cured) a probe passing through the stomach and intestine equipped with a dopamine pump. The brain secretes this chemical molecule essential to our nervous system, our diet in particular.
A single visit to his home by a city nurse is enough to put the system into operation.
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“Parkinson’s hinders the production of this neurotransmitter,” explains Dr. Fanorena. In this patient’s case, the simple act of eating was equivalent to taking seven medications every day. Equipped with this dopamine pump installed in thirty minutes at the end of April, he was able to very quickly leave the hospital, then the Ehpad to return to his home, with regained autonomy and comfort of life. A single visit to his home by a city nurse is enough to put the system into operation. The quantities of dopamine injected vary, then, according to the needs.
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To make the most of the possibilities of this new treatment, it was necessary to train the twenty nurses from the neurology department, then their liberal colleagues, in the very simple operation of the small device. Séverine Binon, Parkinson’s referent nurse, took care of this in part.
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