Re: ccsvi
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 11:51 pm
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Thank you for your reply,drsclafani wrote: perkele
that looks like the carotid artery to me. seems a bit irregular possibly due to some atherosclerosis
DrS
Since you are young, then the diagnosis would not be atherosclerosis. It looks like fibromuscular dysnplasia. but since you say you have hypermobility syndrome, the findings are consistent with ehlers danlos syndrome of the carotid artery.Perkele wrote:Thank you for your reply,drsclafani wrote: perkele
that looks like the carotid artery to me. seems a bit irregular possibly due to some atherosclerosis
DrS
The thing here is that the picture was taken two years ago when I was 23 years old. I find highly unlikely that what we are seeing here is atherosclerosis. I have been a sportsman all my life and my cholesterol levels have been great according to my doc (HDL=2.2 mmol/l and LDL= 1.1 mmol/l).
I have had three brain MRI:s in two years now and pictures have been evaluated by many radiologists and neuros but none of them has mentioned that there is something worrisome in veins. Although I'm not really convinced that they looked carefully those veins/arteries. Who knows...
At this moment I'm really confused about how to proceed and how worried I should be. I have hyper mobility syndrome diagnosed couple of months ago and I somehow feel that collagen production problems might have affected my veins also.
Should I go to neuro and ask him to order MRA and possibly MRV?
Your advice is greatly appreciated.
Perkele
like i have said all along, we have to get some consensus on how to do this procedure before we can compare it to the gold standard, whatever we think that is.
no, i dont think so.pklittle wrote:
like i have said all along, we have to get some consensus on how to do this procedure before we can compare it to the gold standard, whatever we think that is.
Are the doctors any closer to coming to a consensus, particularly after the meeting in Italy?
drsclafani wrote:no, i dont think so.pklittle wrote:
like i have said all along, we have to get some consensus on how to do this procedure before we can compare it to the gold standard, whatever we think that is.
Are the doctors any closer to coming to a consensus, particularly after the meeting in Italy?
It would be tremendous if you are right about that! It's been said that angioplasty is not durable anywhere in the body, why should it be durable here, but if you are right that this is an entirely new sort of disease (pure valvular obstructions) than we should not be limited by the success or failure of other types of angioplasty.We have never treated by angioplasty a disease like this. pure valvular obstructions i am not sure we need to continue to think that restenosis is an essential component of this. We just have to figure out how to do this properly.
I use photobucket, it has a list of choices by the image, one of them is the img code. Clicking it automatically copies it. Not sure if sendspace is the same.Liberation wrote:I tried to put the images of my veins on the page, but somehow only the addresses of them got there
Please see the Forums FAQ thread for a discussion about posting images.Liberation wrote:I tried to put the images of my veins on the page, but somehow only the addresses of them got there