Howdy!

I got this e-mail from somebody making inquiries about a cheap alternative device from Mexico:

Here is something I found quite easily Just did a yahoo search and there is a translated version offered for those who don't speakl spanish

Link to Article

SACERYD: Mexican apparatus palliates the epilépticas crises
Sent the Sunday, 13 November to 16:40:52
Topic: The news related to the Neurocirugia
Withdrawn of Instituto Polite'cnico Nacional (IPN) they elaborated a device with Mexican technology to diminish the frequency and intensity of almost average the epilépticas crises of million people who suffer that disease in the country.

April Muñoz Cruz and Eloy Acosta Hernandez, ex- students of bionic engineering and members of the Institutional Program of Formation of Entrepreneurs of the IPN, they explained that the device, denominated Saceryd, diminishes the frequency and intensity of the epilépticas crises by means of electrical stimulation.

The device consists of a electroestimulador, that is implanted in pectoral the greater one by means of a surgical process, and of an electrode, that is introduced in the neck and it is put in contact with the tenth craneal nerve, vague call, to make arrive the stimuli at the cerebral crust.

Muñoz detailed that with the support of Jorge Pink, investigating Pacheco of the National School of Biological Sciences, the effectiveness was proven del device in a model animal al that caused the disease by means of the injection of a special substance.

' ' We experimented with two groups of rats; first he was not electroestimulado and most of the animals they presented/displayed the symptoms of the last phase of the disease and died, while the rodents that were stimulated in intermittent form by means of square pulses of current did not suffer a sintomatología so outpost and survived ", explained Muñoz Cross.

In the United States a system similar to the developed one by the Mexican bionic engineers exists, but it is commercialized to a high cost.

' ' We created this device with Mexican technology indeed to put it within reach of about 400 thousand patients of epilepsy, and specially for 36 percents of that total that, to suffer refractory epilepsy, must take at least three drugs to have a better standard of life ", it commented Muñoz April.

According to data of the Secretariat of Health, more of a million of Mexican they suffer this affection that in most of the cases (76 percents) is pronounced from the childhood.

In agreement with the plan of businesses that also elaborated, the Saceryd will only cost the third part of the system made in the United States, which has a price greater to 170 dollars, but financing is required to make specific the level of excellence of this new technology.

Acosta commented that they have analyzed diverse biocompatibles materials that cover the electroestimulador to avoid the rejection by the organism.

In agreement with the results, it explained, "the cover can be elaborated with some polymer or titanium, but the problem is that both are expensive, reason why we will see the possibility of obtaining to financing with some institution or interested company, in order to test and later to establish a microcompany".

The specialists needed that the device is designed to operate of uninterrupted way by five years, at the end of who would be necessary to again make a pectoral incision in the greater one to replace the battery with which she operates Saceryd.

Before it, they expressed his interest to improve the prototype and later to replace the battery that provides the current by a mechanism that can be retroalimentar by means of radio frequency or by mechanical transducers of pressure, which they would recharge the system of continuous way with the generated mechanical energy with the rate of the breathing.

Indeed to deepen his studies and to improve the referred device, Muñoz Cruz and Acosta Hernandez they at the moment serve his social in the National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery of the Secretariat of Health, where attention of high level to those who suffers epilepsy, among other diseases occurs.

Okay here's another one. It has a better translation. Apparently it's a knock-off version of thye VNS for about 1/3 the price.

Hmmm....wonder what their stats are? : g :

LINK TO ARTICLE

Mexican apparatus palliates the epilépticas crises

Withdrawn of Instituto Polite'cnico Nacional (IPN) they elaborated a device with Mexican technology to diminish the frequency and intensity of almost average the epilépticas crises of million people who suffer that disease in the country.

April Muñoz Cruz and Eloy Acosta Hernandez, ex- students of bionic engineering and members of the Institutional Program of Formation of Entrepreneurs of the IPN, they explained that the device, denominated Saceryd, diminishes the frequency and intensity of the epilépticas crises by means of electrical stimulation.

The device consists of a electroestimulador, that is implanted in pectoral the greater one by means of a surgical process, and of an electrode, that is introduced in the neck and it is put in contact with the tenth craneal nerve, vague call, to make arrive the stimuli at the cerebral crust.

Muñoz detailed that with the support of Jorge Pink, investigating Pacheco of the National School of Biological Sciences, the effectiveness was proven del device in a model animal al that caused the disease by means of the injection of a special substance.

' ' We experimented with two groups of rats; first he was not electroestimulado and most of the animals they presented/displayed the symptoms of the last phase of the disease and died, while the rodents that were stimulated in intermittent form by means of square pulses of current did not suffer a sintomatología so outpost and survived ", explained Muñoz Cross.

In the United States a system similar to the developed one by the Mexican bionic engineers exists, but it is commercialized to a high cost.

' ' We created this device with Mexican technology indeed to put it within reach of about 400 thousand patients of epilepsy, and specially for 36 percents of that total that, to suffer refractory epilepsy, must take at least three drugs to have a better standard of life ", it commented Muñoz April.

According to data of the Secretariat of Health, more of a million of Mexican they suffer this affection that in most of the cases (76 percents) is pronounced from the childhood.

In agreement with the plan of businesses that also elaborated, the Saceryd will only cost the third part of the system made in the United States, which has a price greater to 170 dollars, but financing is required to make specific the level of excellence of this new technology.

Acosta commented that they have analyzed diverse biocompatibles materials that cover the electroestimulador to avoid the rejection by the organism.

In agreement with the results, it explained, "the cover can be elaborated with some polymer or titanium, but the problem is that both are expensive, reason why we will see the possibility of obtaining to financing with some institution or interested company, in order to test and later to establish a microcompany".

The specialists needed that the device is designed to operate of uninterrupted way by five years, at the end of who would be necessary to again make a pectoral incision in the greater one to replace the battery with which she operates Saceryd.

Before it, they expressed his interest to improve the prototype and later to replace the battery that provides the current by a mechanism that can be retroalimentar by means of radio frequency or by mechanical transducers of pressure, which they would recharge the system of continuous way with the generated mechanical energy with the rate of the breathing.

Indeed to deepen his studies and to improve the referred device, Muñoz Cruz and Acosta Hernandez they at the moment serve his social in the National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery of the Secretariat of Health, where attention of high level to those who suffers epilepsy, among other diseases occurs.

The epilepsy is a multifactorial disease that can be caused by genetic and hormonal alterations, traumatismos, tumors and infectious diseases. One of main the causes of developing infection in countries is the cisticercosis, suffering transmitted by the pig meat or contaminated strawberries.

Now I wonder if this price slashed version (and much more reasonably piced at that) will have the same quality assurance we have all come to know and love as the famous Cyberonics has?