Cuban scientist exposed triumphs for the attention to Parkinson and Alzheimer’s diseases at Valencia, Spain.

The Vice-Director of the International Center of Neurologic Restoration in Havana, Emilio Villa Acosta, MD, expressed that although pathologies as Parkinson and Alzheimer’s diseases have no cure, those affected by these disorders “can improve their quality of life and recover lost functions.”

Villa, MD offered a talk in Valencia, Spain, on the scientific advances conductted in treatments for neurodegenerative disorders as well as on tetraplegic and paraplegic patients at CIREN. CIREN, created in 1989, has assited more than 40,000 patients from 85 countries all over the world.

As expressed by Villa, MD CIREN’S Vice-director the characteristics that make CIREN ‘unique in the world’ are that the multidisciplinary staff in order the guidance of an experienced neurologist, and the work with the patients amounts to seven-daily hours to make it a prsonalized program aimed at each patients disability. Villa, MD, also highlighted the pioneering techniques used in neurologic restoration.

One of the “totalhy Cuban technique” used at the CIREN is “Stereoflex”, for a surgery of great precision and exactness to access vascular and tumoral affections and considered among the most advanced in the world as to the Vice-Director, allows microsurgical lesions – that through the use of a coordinated ring- the neurosurgeons can intervene at the exact place. With a difference below 0,5 milimeters.

As expressed also, our scientists work in the neuronal transplant based on undifferentiated, pluri-potential stem cells to make them dopamine producers-whose absence in determined brain regions is related to Parkinson’s Disease.