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This is awesome news.
Gene therapy has been around for many years, but early attempts at it were largely unsuccessful.
It now looks like it may be a treatment whose time has finally come.
Obviously this is based on just 1 patient, and we need not only more patients but also much longer follow-up to be sure how useful it will be, but still, this looks really promising.
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It looks like there is a promising nasal spray calcium channel blocker that is highly effective at stopping SVT incidents without adverse side effects. In double-blind RCT trials at present, I think.
See https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)00776-6/fulltext