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Dr
McCarty does not do surgery! He removes
the pressure on the brain NON-Surgically using Central
Nervous System Restoration and Neuro Structural Integration. Read more about his treatments by going to the TMJ page. THURSDAY NOVEMBER 11, 1999
WALL STREET JOURNAL High Hopes Surgery on the Skull For Chronic Fatigue?
Doctors Are Trying It
A Bit More Room for the Brain
By
THOMAS M. BURTON
Staff Reporter of The WALL STREET JOURNAL CHICAGO — Jozan Plaza, a 45-year-old Alabama woman, visited Chicago recently
to have part of the back of her skull drilled off. Was this a good idea? Ms. Plaza is among the roughly eight
million Americans diagnosed with a condition called fibromyalgia syndrome, which involves widespread muscle pain, sleeplessness, fatigue and
depression. It is poorly understood and controversial. Many doctors
aren’t convinced it is a disease at all, suspecting that in some patients it
is really depression with physical manifestations. Patients .who are told
they have fibromyalgia — or
the closely related chronic fatigue
syndrome —
are usually
just prescribed sleeping pills, antidepressants, and physical therapy. Treating
patients with these diagnoses, in short, - isn’t brain
surgery. Except that at a handful of American hospitals, it now is. Spinal Tap A new belief
among a few neurosurgeons is that these patients' troubles can stem from a
squeezing of the brain or spinal cord by a too-tight skull or spinal canal. For about
$30,000 a case, they are drilling and snipping away bone from the backs of
people’s skulls to ""decompress”
their brains, spinal cords and central nervous systems. This is like telling the story
of the discovery of insulin,” says Ms. Plaza’s Chicago surgeon, Dan S Heffez. “You’re talking about a completely new insight
about a condition that has baffled people since the beginning of the modern
world.” He and two other doctors, one in Baltimore and one who recently moved
to North Carolina, have operated on hundreds of such patients in all. But other prominent doctors are
aghast that such complicated and potentially dangerous operations are being
offered to patients diagnosed with conditions they regard as primarily
psychiatric in some instances. “Is this on a par with insulin? Not on your
life,” says Peter Carmel, neurosurgery chairman at New Jersey Medical School
in Newark and an authority on the skull malformations at issue. “Would I
offer a patient an operation the way they do? No.” Neurological Difficulties Surgery proponents
contend that these patients, mostly women, have been ignored or ridiculed by
much of the medical profession, and as a result often don’t get proper
neurological exams and diagnoses. These proponents say the problem facing
many such patients is a congenital skull malformation long recognized as
causing, neurological difficulties in a small number of people. It is called “posterior fossa
compression” — or, in-a reference to the doctor who
identified it, a Chiari malformation. The other condition that surgery
proponents point to is a too-narrow spinal canal, called “cervical spinal stenosis.” This is what they are operating for, the
surgeons say; they reject the notion that they use surgery to treat chronic fatigue syndrome or fibromyalgia. But Dan Clauw,
a rheumatologist, at Georgetown University in Washington, contends that only
an “extremely low percentage” of chronic-fatigue and fibromyalgia cases have
such a neurological basis. He says his research group did magnetic resonance
imaging of the skull and spine in 28 fibromyalgia patients and 14 other
people and found “no difference in the MRIs between the fibromyalgia group
and the control group.” At the very least, he says, a controlled clinical
trial should be done before subjecting hundreds of patients to highly
invasive surgery. The pioneer of the surgery, Michael
J. Rosner, says that he plans to publish a
-medical-journal article on the topic. “Unless you’re looking for this or you
have a high degree of suspicion, you say there is nothing wrong with the
patient,” he says. “I don’t operate on somebody who doesn’t have an abnormal
exam. A case that proved a big spur to his
surgery involved a patient .who was himself a
doctor. Sam Banner, a family practitioner with a storefront office in
Dothan, Ala., was diagnosed with chronic
fatigue syndrome in 1989. He found himself so weak and tired he could no longer practice medicine, so
he took a desk job reviewing workers’ compensation claims for a local manufacturer.
In that job, he noticed that lots of spine and skull surgery was being done
by Dr. Rosner at the University of Alabama in
Birmingham. The purpose
was to alleviate pressure on the lower part of the hind-brain, known as
cerebellar tonsils. It is well established that these organs can
be packed too tightly and that, in rare cases, this causes neurological
problems: patients may have severe pain or numbness in the arms, severe
difficulty concentrating, or wildly exaggerated reflexes and a wobbly gait. Dr. Rosner, a
prominent surgeon who had already helped transform accepted treatment of head
trauma, began doing skull surgery on patients who didn’t meet classic
definitions. For instance, he concluded that the cerebellar tonsils didn’t need to be forced several millimeters
below the base of the skull to cause trouble, but could do so just by
squeezing against the spinal cord. Dr.
Banner implored Dr. Rosner to do an MRI on him. Dr.
Rosner did, concluding Dr. Banner had a too-tight
spine that squeezed his spinal cord. On learning there might be a physical cause for his problem, says Dr.
Banner, “I went to the chapel at the university and got down on my hands and
knees and thanked God.” Dr.
Rosner did a spinal operation called a laminectomy
in 1995, and afterward, Dr. Banner, feeling
very much better, became. something of a crusader.
He named his office the Nathanael Medical Center— “Nathanael” translates
loosely from Hebrew as “gift from
God”—made fibromyalgia and chronic-fatigue a part of his practice,
and organized a support group for sufferers. He took out newspaper and Internet
ads telling sufferers there might
be hope for their hitherto intractable conditions. Many
people who came to him had been seen many times by rheumatologists, neurologists,
radiologists and assorted other -ologists. “If you go
into a doctor’s office and tell them you’re tired or you hurt all over, they don’t want to hear about
it,” Dr. Banner says. When such people were examined, he says, 50% to 80% turned out to have
cranial or spinal malformations. He
began referring them to Dr. Rosner, who says he
operated on about 90 of about 300 patients sent. Insurance generally covered
the surgery because Dr. Rosner didn’t diagnose
their problems as fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue syndrome; he regarded them
as having Chiari malformations or cervical spinal stenosis. Several
of Dr. Rosner’s patients say they were disabled and
miserable beforehand; even unable to walk, and dramatically improved
afterward. Stephanie B. Ash. who had been diagnosed
with chronic fatigue syndrome,
says she saw Dr. Banner on a local TV show and got far better after surgery. “The Lord led me to watch television
that morning,” says the Dothan resident. Not
everybody was so thrilled. Four patients sued Drs. Banner and Rosner and the University of Alabama at Birmingham
health-services foundation, claiming unnecessary surgery was done on them at
UAB. Some asserted, in Houston County, Ala., Circuit Court, that their
symptoms had worsened. One said she developed meningitis. Doctors
complained, too. Other doctors in Dothan who saw some of these same patients
before and after surgery concluded that some operations were unnecessary and
unhelpful. Cases One
such doctor is D. Bruce Woodham, a neurosurgeon who
saw a patient, Donna McCord, in 1996 after surgery by Dr. Rosner.
Dr. Woodham wrote to Dr. Rosner
that Ms. McCord was doing poorly. “I
would consider her a failure in her series as she has exactly the same symptomology she had prior to her surgery and now
she is on disability,” he wrote. “The patient states that her life is a
wreck... she states that she is really not any better off.” Lawsuits by Ms.
McCord and two other patients against UAB and Dr. Rosner
have been settled; Dr. Banner won summary judgement
in the three patients’ suits against him. The fourth suit was withdrawn. Three
years ago, Dr. Woodham wrote a letter, signed by 13
other Dothan doctors, to UAB’s neurosurgery chairman expressing concern about
an “inordinately high” number of operations for hind-brain compression. The doctors said that they had
seen many of the patients Dr. Banner referred to Dr. Rosner
for surgery-and that their exam results were normal. “These patients are
desperate people, eager to obtain any sort of relief that might be offered
them,” Dr. Woodham’s letter said. “They, I feel,
are easy prey to someone who offers them a quick fix for a problem that does
not have a quick fix.” UAB’s neurosurgery chairman, Richard Morawetz, confronted Dr. Rosner
and. tried to get him to leave the faculty, contending - he
was doing unnecessary surgery, according to people familiar ‘with the events.
They add that Dr. Rosner asked for an internal
medical panel to investigate, and that a panel member asked him how much
money it would take for him to leave the university. A settlement was
reached, and Dr. Rosner left UAB.. Clearly,
however, sentiment at UAB against the surgery wasn’t unanimous. Some former
colleagues of Dr. Rosner at UAB published an
abstract of work that, Dr. Rosner claims, sought
credit for what were his ideas and work. That abstract concluded that a Chiari malformation—a too-tight
skull—could contribute to fibromyalgia symptoms. Dr. Rosner describes the events at UAB as “thieving, lying,
backstabbing and power plays.” UAB says a peer-review panel found there was
no misconduct on the part of any of the researchers. Some
doctors now face litigation from Dr. Banner. He has alleged defamation by Dr.
Woodham and the co-signers of his letter, and he
has accused Dr. Morawetz and two UAB colleagues of
hurting his medical practice by criticizing his diagnoses. A UAB spokesman
declines to comment, but a lawyer for the defendants says they deny all the
suit’s allegations. It is pending in Jefferson County, Ala., Circuit Court. Dr.
Rosner now does surgery at Park Ridge Hospital in Fletcher, N.C. Dr. Banner still refers patients to him,
and also sends some, such as Ms. Plaza, to Dr. Heffez,
who is at the Chicago Institute of Neurosurgery & Neuroresearch. And
Dr. Rosner has won, a few
other converts in the medical world. A rheumatologist at the University of
Wisconsin, Daniel Malone, was persuaded by a talk Dr. Rosner
gave at a medical conference and has begun referring patients to Dr. Heffez in Chicago. A doctor at Johns Hopkins Hospital in
Baltimore, Peter C. Rowe, also heard Dr. Rosner
speak and has since sent_patients to him, to Dr. Heffez and to the third doctor who does this kind of
surgery, John D. Weingart at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Weingart and Dr. Heffez have
done about 75 of these surgeries, and Dr. Rosner an
estimated 250. All
of which greatly concerns many others in medicine. Contending that this
group of patients could be one particularly susceptible to a placebo effect,
the critics complain that the surgery is being done without a rigorous effort
to compare surgery patients’ outcomes with others’. “My feeling is that Rosner and Heffez are moving
way too rapidly,” says Georgetown’s Dr. Clauw.
Though he agrees that some fibromyalgia and chronic-fatigue patients
probably have brain or spine compressions,
“my view is that it’s an extremely low percentage.” The
government doesn’t require clinical trials for new surgical techniques, but
many hospitals have internal review boards to scrutinize them. Dr. Heffez sees no reason for any hospital to do an internal
review of such surgery because, he says, it Is “standard treatment for a
standard neurological problem that has gone undiagnosed.” Dr. Heffez plans to publish his results, which he says have
included improvement by 100% of the patients who suffered from disorientation, dizziness or
diffuse pain, and by 95% of those with insomnia. Word
already is getting around. The National Fibromyalgia Research Association’s
Web site has publicized the technique, and word is spreading from people who
have had the surgery and are happy with it. Ms.
Plaza, for one, feels hers was a terrific idea. Before the four-hour
operation, she says, she had headaches,
blurred vision and fatigue “so powerful I had to lean against the wall.”
Now, she says, many of these symptoms have abated so much that “I feel like I
could conquer the world.” ALTERNATIVES
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