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| My husband took his daughter to her Orthopiedic Surgon on Wednesday, it has been 8 months since her sergery and no adjustments. The Dr. stated that he will be unable to adjust her at this time due to an FDA halt on the product?
Does anybody know about this? We are extremely concerned as she is merely 7yrs old and growing like a weed...  |
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Location: Chittenden County Vermont | Where do you go? My Maggie is due for expansion in November at Boston Children's Hospital and believe me we would know if it was cancelled since Dr. Emans is in the forefront of VEPTR surgeries.
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Location: Plymouth, Pennsylvania | ZOE IS HAVING SURGERY NOV. 30TH ALSO FOR AN EXPANSION???
I HAVE A LETTER OUT, JUST IN CASE.... |
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| She goes to Texas Children's here in Houston... I've tried looking on many websites and I can't seem to find anything about the FDA halting these surgeries, not even on the FDA's website... Something's not right here... |
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Location: casper wyoming | James is sceduled for an expansion Nov 22nd in Saltlake.I was just talking with his Drs assitant the other day she didnt say anything to me.Please keep us posted on this. |
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Location: Plymouth, Pennsylvania | SEEMS IT IS NOT KNOWLEDGE IN BOSTON???
PERHAPS IT WAS JUST THAT 'HOUSTON SITE' THAT GOT SHUT DOWN?
IF THAT IS THE CASE, I WOULD BE LOOKING FOR ANOTHER DOC...KEEP US POSTED... |
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| Yeah, apparently the FDA missed that memo too.. My husband will be calling Dr. first thing Monday morning... Somethin's not right here... |
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Location: Spring Lake, Michigan | Hello, have you heard anything yet? Being that you are in Texas why not just go to San Antonio? |
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Location: florida | we just went to the Ortho last Thursday and Logan has not had the surgery yet due to the hospital not having the VEPTR program in place yet, but they are working on getting it approved at Florida hospital in Orlando and the Dr only told me that it is NOT FDA approved but it IS HUD approved so he can still do the surgery for people who meet the criteria.
If i were you tho id find out what is going on at that hospital and if they dont figure it out soon i'd seek another Dr to do the expansion because growing kids can't wait |
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Location: Maryland | For what it's worth, our daughter just got her right VEPTR placed and had her left one expanded by Dr. Campbell less than a week ago.
Edited by The Handleys 2010-10-23 2:35 PM
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FDA Halts VECTR surgeries?
