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To prevent the development of “Dawson’s finger” projections, a ligature of the jugular vein carrying injurious venous back-jets into the center of the brain might form a simple method for curing an otherwise relentlessly progressing disease.

The specific brain plaques of multiple sclerosis can only be caused by energetic venous back-jets set in motion by intermittent rises in the pressure in the large collecting veins of the neck, but especially of the chest.

Trying to reach as well a German audience, I recently mainly discussed the critical questions of venous ms in the csvi-ms.net forum.

Zamboni actually discovered that MS is more often related to a narrowing than a valvular incompetence of internal jugular and azygos veins.

From this, however, it cannot be ruled out that venous back-jet plays a critical role in the pathogenesis of MS.

Venous stasis never produces the kind of vein-dependent lesion spread and the damages to vein walls observed in cerebral MS.

In my e-book I referred to the possibility that MS-specific damages might not only be produced by venous flow inversions originating in the most central and largest venous collectors such as superior and inferior cava and anonymous (=brachiocephalic) veins. It is no less harmful for the brain to be attacked by a venous flow inversion caused by a compression of a proximally (=heart-wards) narrowed cervical collecting vein. There remain, and this is a critical fact, a priori fewer direct and mediate escape routes into other venous territories in a compression of a large, heart-wards narrowed deep cervical vein draining a smaller part of the brain than in a compression of the large chest veins.

In case MS remains active after the widening of a narrowed internal jugular vein two possibilities need to be kept in mind: the new bouts of MS can (a) be caused also by venous back-jets from a sporadically, functionally heart-wards obstructed internal jugular vein(in this case a thorough Duplex-study of the cervical veins in any possible head-position may discover the cause); or (b) the venous reflux from the neck has become superceded by venous back-jets from the large venous collectors of the chest (this possibility has to be primarily envisaged in a valvular incompetence of either one, or both, internal jugular veins).