[2] Paolo Bolognese left TCI on September, 1st, 2014[3] The institute itself is used as a treatment facility for patients with Chiari malformations and related illnesses.
In 2003 a case report was published stating that, contrary to previously held belief, syringomyelia can present with a rapid progression of acute symptoms and requires the immediate placing of a ventriculoperitoneal shunt.
While the conditions are often treated differently, the findings showed that 12.7% of patients with type one Chiari malformations also presented with hereditary disorders of connective tissue and/or Ehlers–Danlos syndrome.
[6] More recently, the doctors from the Chiari Institute published a paper saying that syncope is a potential symptom of Eagle syndrome, a condition in which the temporal bone of the skull is elongated and conflicts with other anatomy.
[8][10][11][12] According to these lawsuits, patients were purposefully misdiagnosed and told that the procedure used for tethered spinal cord syndrome would alleviate the symptoms of their Chiari malformations.