My failed thoracic spine arachnoid web (SAW) surgery by Dr. Ali Baaj at Banner University Hospital in Phoenix, AZ is at this link:
https://sites.google.com/view/thoracicspinearachnoidweb/home
From the above link:
"MULTIPLE CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY
A few arachnoiditis patients may develop multiple chemical sensitivity. A paper in 1996 (lxxx) suggested a causal link between neurotoxic illnesses, MCSD (multiple chemical sensitivity disorder) and exposure to environmental toxins, including organic solvents and dental materials. There is also a link between autoimmune diseases such as lupus and multiple allergies."
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1529943021007828
Spinal arachnoid web (SAW) is a rare pathology causing spinal cord compression due to the formation of thickened arachnoid tissue [1]. It can lead to spinal cord compression or focal syrinx formation causing symptoms of myelopathy such as progressive (neuropathic) pain, weakness, sensory deficits or other less common neurological findings. Syringomyelia is frequent and caused by mass effect of the SAW or obstruction of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flow [2,3].
Clinical management is challenging since the spinal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings are often subtle and easily overseen. In addition, microsurgical treatment requires a high degree of skill and experience. Only 45 individual cases of surgically confirmed SAW have been described in the literature [4], [5], [6].
Dr. Ali Baaj (Banner University in Phoenix ,AZ) told me before my surgery that he had done less than a dozen surgeries of arachnoid web. However, he also told me that it did not matter as it was a simple operation. The most important item during the surgery was that the spinal canal dura was closed with no leaks.
His medical paper on arachnoid web/cyst is at best a rough outline of Thoracic Spine Arachnoid medical papers by other surgeons and is no indication that he is an expert on the removal of the arachnoid web/cyst.
Ali Baaj has never has ordered a GE Fiesta-C MRI on any of his spinal patients for any surgery on the spine. Ali Baaj thinks a Fiesta-c MRI is for brain scans only. So, he has not done his homework and in my opinion it is sad.
After I got my 3D Fiesta MRI, it was plain to see it was the best informative MRI for surgery.
Full story at the link below:
My Thoracic Arachnoid Web surgical picture showing the open spinal column and spinal cord
2023 MRI 3D Fiesta showing the clarity of the reoccurrence of the Thoracic Spine Arachnoid Web in 10 months time. Dr. Ali Baaj would not take the time to order this type of MRI as he has never ordered on for any of his patients. He told me to find a place that would do it myself as he and his staff were too busy. He was no help at all. He said the kink in my spine (shown on regular junk MRI) just did not return to normal position after he decompressed it. This detailed 3D feista MRI proved he was wrong in his after surgery diagnoses. Dr. Ali Baaj now says go to pain management and he will not operate again. Another Very Prominent Neurosurgeon at Columbia University in NY says it needs to be operated on and removed.