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Second vCJD patient to receive experimental treatment
BMJ 2003; 327 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.327.7420.886-a (Published 16 October 2003) Cite this as: BMJ 2003;327:886- Clare Dyer, legal correspondent
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Doctors treating an 18 year old girl in the north of England with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) were given the go-ahead last week to inject her brain with pentosan polysulphate, an experimental treatment tried earlier this year on a Belfast teenager with the disease.
Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, president of the High Court's family division, who gave the green light last December for 19 year old Jonathan Simms to have the treatment (BMJ 2003;326: 8), …
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