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Mark I am a strong advocate of MS being a consequent of the perfect storm of multiple factors. I do try to bring this out in my Youtube and also in a paper I have had accepted for publication in one of the medical journals. Physics of fluid dynamics does not address other contributing factors like g...

While measuring CSA at various points in the vein, is it also possible to measure systolic and diastolic pressures at those points? With such measurements it may be possible to model the pressure distribution in the vein using computational fluid dynamics and to extrapolate that pressure distributio...

A comment to 1eye - my perception is that your observation that "muscle movements and valves actively interrupting flow I would think makes any kind of frequency or wave analysis impossible" might be a bit of overstatement. I would say it makes it more difficult and is why I propose the di...

Nigel Thanks for helping carry this banner. I am in the process of revising a scientific paper that has been accepted for publication in one of the reasonably well known medical journals. It is one thing to put together a youtube presentation and another to put together a scientific paper that it is...

MikeinFlorida If you haven't seen it yet you might want to watch my 3 part Youtube called "From Stenoses to Fatigue and Scleroses". It provides some demonstrations of the characteristics of fluid pressure standing waves. Application of fluid dynamics to vein obstruction (for example, a thi...

Cece My best guess is that when the capillary bed's blood flow returns to closer to normal, the BBB probably mends itself largely and progress of the disease either slows substantially or stops. However, the existing iron deposits, scar tissue and other damage remains. To me this means the earlier i...

The IVUS measurements under discussion are a potentially direct means of determining any haemodynamic standing pressure waves created by venous obstructions. If such pressure waves can measured by IVUS, then through the application of computational fluid dynamics, the amount of hypertension in the a...

There has long been a link (albeit perhaps a weak one) associating genetics to MS. The language in the Nature Letter earlier this week doesn't seem to run counter to that. It may simply be that some dedicated Neurologists pick up a new bit of scientific evidence and interpret the results in a black ...

The Letter in Nature that the CTV News item refers to is entitled "Genetic risk and a primary role for cell-mediated immune mechanissms in multiple sclerosis" (Nature, 476, 11 Aug 2011, pp214 - 219) summarizes the findings of this large genome study as follows: "More generally, our st...

Well done Zinamaria. You might be interested in looking at my Youtube presentation entitled :"From Stenoses to Fatigue and Scleroses - An Application of the Physics of Fluid Mechanics". Using Fluid Dynamics principles I demonstrate that localized acute hypertension regions may occur in obs...