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Updated · VINNews · Sep 6
Kisunla Clears 79-Year-Old Florida Patient's Brain Plaques After 18 Months
Updated
Updated · VINNews · Sep 6

Kisunla Clears 79-Year-Old Florida Patient's Brain Plaques After 18 Months

1 articles · Updated · VINNews · Sep 6

Summary

  • 18 months of Kisunla infusions left Scott Milinski, 79, with no detectable amyloid plaques on follow-up testing, Broward Health said.
  • PET scans, MRI, blood biomarker tests and cognitive assessments had confirmed Alzheimer’s-linked plaques before treatment and were used again to monitor his response.
  • Broward Health said Milinski was the second person in Florida to receive the FDA-approved drug, which is given every four weeks and slowed Alzheimer’s progression by up to 30% in trials.
  • More than 60 patients are now receiving Kisunla at Broward Health’s Memory Disorder & Alzheimer’s Center, which stressed the treatment is not a cure but aims to slow the disease.

Insights

If Alzheimer's plaques vanish after 18 months of infusions, what happens when the treatment stops and the disease continues?
Is clearing brain plaques worth the severe risk of brain bleeding if it only slows cognitive decline instead of curing it?