Wow. I'll put it on there immediately.
I want to share a few especially interesting items.
This paper tallies the preliminary results of what we have been calling the liberation 100 patients.
It is, as we knew ahead of time, endovascular treatment for stenosis in MS patients....Treatment of patients based on the CCSVI model. Once again all MS patients had 2 or mor abnormalities in the doppler assessment done by Zamboni's expert team demonstrating reflux into the cerebral system.
Venography was done to localize the stenosis. There were a variety of abnormalities seen from simple stenosis to twisted veins. There are pictures of the venograms on the paper,
including pictures of the same veins after balloon angioplasty or stenting. These pictures demonstrate clearly improved flow.
Here is a breakdown of the stenoses seen;
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In particular the azygous vein in the multiple sclerosis group was affected in 86% of cases. Most cases involved membranous obstructions at the junction with the vena cava, or, less frequently, twisting septums and atresia can be seen.
In 12 cases the azygous system presented stenosis at several points up to even atresia or agenesis of the lumbar plexuses (18%). As for jugular veins they were found to be steonsed unilaterally or bilaterally in 59 of 65 cases (91%).
(ed: typed in by me it was not copy/pasteable)
This seems to mimic the results TIMSers report after they have had MRV at Stanford with Dr Dake. The majority of us have reported jugular stenosis.
In this paper only results on the RRMS patients were reported
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A total of 51 patients were treated with a relapsing remitting clinical course....results herein refer exclusively to results obtained on the relapsing remitting patients.
rates of relapse were compared before proceudre compared to after procedure
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the probability of acute attack DECREASED more than 4 fold after endovascular treatment
They also demonstrated imporved MSFC-Z scores (like edss) see the paper...at 1 and 6 months.
And that fatigue is decreased by 50%, mentioning that this symptom is an orphan as far as improvement with any current known treatment.
They continued to monitor people on a routine basis with dopplers--if there was an abnormaility they did venography. Additionally any relapse of symptoms was cause for a repeat doppler and venography as indicated.
Incredibly------
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All patients with restenosis corresponded to those who manifested new relapses in the year subsequent to the endovascular procedure
In other words if you had a relapse in this study YOU WERE ALSO A PATIENT WHOSE VEIN PLUGGED UP AGAIN.
It doesn't get any clearer than that.
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