prof8 wrote:Perhaps soon someone will patent a stent specifically for the jugular veins and even high up.
You bet. I am a patent lawyer, and have been working in the stent and angioplasty arts for 20 years, and I can assure you that someone will. In fact, another patent lawyer friend of mine who knows I have MS told me about the condition and the web site and Dr. Dake, which is how I found out about CCSVI for the first time. He knew about it because a client had some invention related to that, and I am pretty sure it involves a veinous stent. Of course he couldn't tell me because it is confidential, and I am just guessing, but still ...
And I assure you that would not be the only one. As soon as the need for such a stent appears, the Big Boys will be all over it...Medtronic, Guidant, Abbott, J&J, St. Judes, etc. That's how it works.