CCSVI in Canada: Who/What/Where
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 4:41 pm
Hi All
Update December 19, 2009
UCC in False Creek Vancouver, B.C. is doing the scans
Here is their website
http://www.urgentcarecentre.com/
Braden
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In this discussion I'd like to ask for and share information regarding CCSVI testing in Canada - especially BC and Vancouver/Victoria.
Near as I can figure out, this is a specialized Ultrasound Testing and a special MRI testing called MRV.
Note: this is not just your everyday ultrasound or MRI.
So we need to contact Radiologists and see who can do this or is willing to learn. I think Dr. Zamboni has published a testing protocol on this.
My immediate goal is to create a list of those who can do the testing.
If I can find someone to do the test my doctor is happy to request it.
So if you know of anyone, particularly in Victoria or
Vancouver - please let me know.
The second step is the stint or balloon procedure.
The big concern seems to be the connection between CCSVI and MS - which is my concern also.
However, I think we may be focusing on the wrong thing.
It's going to take years to do the research on this - especially in Canada.
I'm quite happy to accept the research of Dr. Zamboni and get on with trying the 'Liberation Cure'. That this procedure is already being done in the United States, Poland, Australia and New Zeland is evidence that it's a viable and safe procedure. It's day surgery and relatively little risk.
What I'd like to suggest, is that instead of concentrating on the MS connection that we focus on getting treatment for this as a vascular problem.
Insurance companies in the States are paying for this procedure because it's a vascular problem - an obvious vascular problem and therefore needs to be fixed. I suggest it's no different than any other bodily defect that can be and needs to be corrected. And that this is obvious and that the defect stands on it's own.
I invite a discussion on this line of thinking and suggest that we then go to the vascular doctors and see if in fact this problem can be considered in this light. We then can bypass waiting umpteen years for the MS/CCSVI problem to be verified.
Let the fun begin!
BC
Update December 19, 2009
UCC in False Creek Vancouver, B.C. is doing the scans
Here is their website
http://www.urgentcarecentre.com/
Braden
--------------------
In this discussion I'd like to ask for and share information regarding CCSVI testing in Canada - especially BC and Vancouver/Victoria.
Near as I can figure out, this is a specialized Ultrasound Testing and a special MRI testing called MRV.
Note: this is not just your everyday ultrasound or MRI.
So we need to contact Radiologists and see who can do this or is willing to learn. I think Dr. Zamboni has published a testing protocol on this.
My immediate goal is to create a list of those who can do the testing.
If I can find someone to do the test my doctor is happy to request it.
So if you know of anyone, particularly in Victoria or
Vancouver - please let me know.
The second step is the stint or balloon procedure.
The big concern seems to be the connection between CCSVI and MS - which is my concern also.
However, I think we may be focusing on the wrong thing.
It's going to take years to do the research on this - especially in Canada.
I'm quite happy to accept the research of Dr. Zamboni and get on with trying the 'Liberation Cure'. That this procedure is already being done in the United States, Poland, Australia and New Zeland is evidence that it's a viable and safe procedure. It's day surgery and relatively little risk.
What I'd like to suggest, is that instead of concentrating on the MS connection that we focus on getting treatment for this as a vascular problem.
Insurance companies in the States are paying for this procedure because it's a vascular problem - an obvious vascular problem and therefore needs to be fixed. I suggest it's no different than any other bodily defect that can be and needs to be corrected. And that this is obvious and that the defect stands on it's own.
I invite a discussion on this line of thinking and suggest that we then go to the vascular doctors and see if in fact this problem can be considered in this light. We then can bypass waiting umpteen years for the MS/CCSVI problem to be verified.
Let the fun begin!
BC