Dr. Siddiqui at ISNVD
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 1:29 pm
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One of my favorite topics!
I love the National CCSVI Society. They also sponsored the global expo a few months back, which was excellent. They have earned Canadian charitable status. And they are live-tweeting ISNVD.
One of my favorite topics!
Are there any studies underway?Dr. Adrian Siddiqui presenting "IVUS consensus" No studies comparing IVUS with standard venography
Isn't ivus being the only way to image azygous vein rather significant? If the only other option is to balloon or not balloon rather blindly?Dr. Siddiqui: great resolution with IVUS to find stenosis. Less operator dependent. Only way to image azygos vein
I love the National CCSVI Society. They also sponsored the global expo a few months back, which was excellent. They have earned Canadian charitable status. And they are live-tweeting ISNVD.
Dr. Siddiqui just showed film of IVUS in healthy and diseased azygos veins while patient was breathing. Wow!
Dr. Siddiqui is from BNAC (Buffalo, like Dr. Zivadinov) and I believe their PREMise treatment study used IVUS?Dr. Siddiqui: IVUS showed more abnormalities in azygos veins than IJVs. Good for balloon sizing.
But as patients, what are we to do, if the IRs are not collecting data? Choose one who is? Not get the treatment? Participate in a blinded study (which is not something I wanted to do)?Dr. Siddiqui: sad fact: 30,000 treated, but data only collected on ~300. Treatment w/out data collection unacceptable
Not sure what is meant?Dr. Siddiqui: difficult to correlate asymmetry because of lesion location. However Zamboni's original data attempted this