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wow, very interesting!

Young age is defined as under 30; short disease duration is defined as 5 years or less.

Even if these are trends, there are still PP patients in the improvement category and RR patients in the nonimprovement category, etc.

This is measuring improvement as an improvement in EDSS, which does not capture all possible improvements such as in vision, fatigue, etc.

It is quite possible that PP patients have more complicated azygous disease (see the recent discussion in DSASQ, of renal veins and azygous stenoses not seen on venogram but found with IVUS). So, fewer improvements for PP patients could be a result of insufficient treatment of the complicated azygous.

I would take these as preliminary trends but would want to see the technique perfected (or as close as possible) before taking them too much to heart.

Looks like the results for over-the-hill males who don't have the relapsing remitting type are not good.

I'd like to see the age breakdown of the 47 patients with disease duration and results that crossmatch both.

It's a little early to be drawing conclusions from such a small group, when the control group is 470 patients it will carry far more weight.

Still, nice to see results being compiled, but wthout a universal standard for collation or for the procedure itself it's little more than a bit of PR.

*I* knew that. Still working on it though. Almost 57 1/2 years old. Triked ~9K today. BP ~106/75. HR ~85.

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usually .... I am pleased to read such wonderful news..... but what with all we know ...... I must stress great caution to anyone thinking of travelling to Poland.

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