{"id":15826,"date":"2018-03-14T07:32:14","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T07:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=15826"},"modified":"2018-03-14T07:32:14","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T07:32:14","slug":"treating-patients-suffering-from-me-cfs-with-sodium-dichloroacetate-a-pilot-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/treating-patients-suffering-from-me-cfs-with-sodium-dichloroacetate-a-pilot-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Treating patients suffering from (ME\/CFS) with sodium dichloroacetate: a pilot trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Research abstract:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.medical-hypotheses.com\/article\/S0306-9877(18)30105-1\/fulltext#s0040\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Treating patients suffering from myalgic encephalopathy\/chronic fatigue syndrome ME\/CFS) with sodium dichloroacetate: An open-label, proof-of-principle pilot trial<\/a>, by Frank Comhaire <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">in<\/span> <em>Medical hypotheses<\/em> May 2018 Vol 114, Pp\u00a045\u201348<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-two consecutive patients suffering from refractory myalgic encephalitis\/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME\/CFS) were treated with an innovative <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nutraceutical\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nutriceutical<\/a> containing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livestrong.com\/article\/230471-what-is-sodium-dichloroacetate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sodium dichloroacetate<\/a> in a proof-of-principle, pilot, open-label prospective cohort trial.<\/p>\n<p>Ten patients experienced significant improvement of their health condition with reduction to almost half of their score in the fatigue severity scale. In twelve patients treatment failed to exert any beneficial effect. In the latter patients several other diseases have commonly been revealed by extensive biological and imaging investigations.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-15827 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DCA.jpg?resize=420%2C280\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"280\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DCA.jpg?w=420&amp;ssl=1 420w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DCA.jpg?resize=150%2C100&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DCA.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 420px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 420\/280;\" \/>These preliminary findings sustain the hypothetical role of mitochondrial hypo-metabolism due to inhibition of the activity of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pyruvate_dehydrogenase\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pyruvate dehydrogenase<\/a> in the pathogenesis of primary ME\/CFS, and suggest a possible benefit of nutriceutical treatment by sodium dichloroacetate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research abstract: Treating patients suffering from myalgic encephalopathy\/chronic fatigue syndrome ME\/CFS) with sodium dichloroacetate: An open-label, proof-of-principle pilot trial, by Frank Comhaire in Medical hypotheses May 2018 Vol 114, Pp\u00a045\u201348 Twenty-two consecutive patients suffering from refractory myalgic encephalitis\/chronic fatigue syndrome &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/treating-patients-suffering-from-me-cfs-with-sodium-dichloroacetate-a-pilot-trial\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[4260,4258,4261,3382,4259],"class_list":["post-15826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-frank-comhaire","tag-mitochondrial-hypo-metabolism","tag-nutriceutical-treatment","tag-pyruvate-dehydrogenase","tag-sodium-dichloroacetate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qkYK-47g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15828,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15826\/revisions\/15828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}