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Some comments make interesting read ...

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He has been logically questioned by lay readers.

Obviously, he is thick skinned. Otherwise he would take a couple of minutes and looked within ...

Colin Rose said

February 15, 2010 at 13:01
From the look of your facebook portrait I would highly doubt you have severe enough narrowings in both jugulars to cause any disease. If you did, your face would look like someone who has been stranged, blue and swollen with protruding tongue and eyeballs.

What type of Doppler did you have? Having a friend, knowing your diagnosis, do a test on you, the interpretation of which is highly subjective, is not advised. If he had said you had normal veins would he still be your friend?

Before any surgery is done it is imperative to measure pressure gradients across the presumed blockage seen on a venogram. If upstream pressure is not high and there is no significant gradient, stenting would be useless as well as dangerous. Stenting of arteries is an entirely different procedure, irrelevant to any presumed venous pathology.

Chrisoneeye said

February 15, 2010 at 19:01
You admit they can cause disease?
Looks can deceive. Not working, walking, driving, riding bike, or playing guitar anymore. Fall way too often, especially when head not upright. Use wheelchair or non-mobile chair in house mostly.
Already addressed face. Think that’s how I started. Many ways to avoid purple+death. Onset is gradual, if you are not born with it. Being strangled veryslowly.
Doppler brand? Famous Japanese name. Need protocol, make, model? Very recent purchase. 5 MHz probe I think, but not positive.
Surgeon will take measurements he/she needs.

-Chris Sullivan

Chrisoneeye said

February 16, 2010 at 11:09
I hope anyone still reading this realizes that my last post (4., above) was in answer to Colin’s (5.above).

I can’t argue any more. I hope they have their minds made up. I do.

Thanks.

Chris Sullivan

This thing is old, already discussed on TIMS for example here and here. He says that there's no such thing as CCSVI as it is anatomically impossible (your eyes would pop out...). Bufallo and the CCSVI approval of the UIP already have proven him wrong.