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Chris-- I'm so sorry. I hope you can be seen by medical professionals in your area. LR gives great advice. Here's a thread you started back in January regarding going to Poland. I know this doesn't help you, but I've really been trying to make sure patients have follow-up care and that they stay ho...

color=indigo]quote - Dr Sclafani: i would use a high pressure balloon. if you had a sausage appearance with a high pressure balloon, a low pressure balloon is not going to do much. Bars are places i go after work.....i think in atmospheres. moderate balloons go up to about 8 atm. high pressure ballo...

Sorry just posted a question as a new topic! My question is for Dr. Sclafani! Dr. Sclafani I'd like to ask you a couple of questions. I had a stent put into my left IJV and there now seems to be some re-narrowing (intra-stent stenosis maybe due to intimal hyperplasia). My doctor is going to try to o...

Dr. sclafani I'd like to ask you a couple of questions. I had a stent put into my left IJV and there now seems to be some re-narrowing (intra-stent stenosis maybe due to intimal hyperplasia). My doctor is going to try to open the vein more again ( a different doctor to the one who did the original a...

Greetings, I have edited the presentation given by Dr. Sclafani in June 2010 at Dr. Zamboni's conference in Italy and made it available as an easily downloadable mp3. Please do not link to it, but instead save it to your own computer and help spread it far and wide. sclafani_italy_june_2010 "Z...

Pauline, thanks for your good info. What meds are you taking for blood thinners? Plavix, aspirin, or anything? thanks, Rose Hi Rose. I'm only taking aspirin now. I took Areplex injections for 7 days, Plavix for 8 weeks together with omeprazole ( an drug which they advise in case of stomach irritati...

Had a follow-up Doppler last Monday 10 weeks after procedure - locally. Done by very competent IR who 'dopplers' jugular and other veins "all the time" (for dialysis and cancer patients). Could see stent clearly in place but now narrowed again!! Now becoming apparent to many, I think, that...

I'm very curious how long the people with blocked stents were on anticoagulants (Plavix, Warfarin , Heparin etc). Dr. Kostecki prescribed 14 days of 60mg of Clexane once a day for 14 days, 75mg of Plavix once a day for a year and 150 mg ASA once a day for life. I've been reading other posts in the ...

Wow Ashton! Absolutely fantastic. Thank God for people like you.
Knowledgable, compassionate, inquisitive, informative, open-minded.... can't think of enough personal attributes!!

Pauline

Bece, have you still seen little or no improvement? If your veins are still open, as in like other healthy normal people's, then that's bound to be better than if they're blocked. Since the procedure, I still have my good days and bad days but I think anybody with MS will inevitably have these wheth...

Ha ha - wonderful! I'm probably one of them. Whatever they put in I hope it's working and making you feel great!!

Pauline

Esta probably someone has told you already, but the balloon doesn't stay - they only inflate it while the catheter is in to open up the vein. If the vein stays open on its own then they don't put a stent in but the meaurement you gave sounds like a stent measurement. They gave you an 'information' c...

IN ANGIOPLASTY, THERE IS NO BALLOON LEFT IN A VEIN OR ELSE HOW WOULD THE BLOOD FLOW?? The balloon is inflated to open the vein and then to place the stent, if one is to be used. It's then deflated and withdrawn. :!: "A catheter – a fine, flexible, hollow tube – with a small inflatable balloon a...

Dr. Tom Gilhooley is my doctor and although I now live temprorarily in the Middle East, I always consult with him on my return to the UK as well as communicating regularly with him. I've been consulting with him for a number of years - since he first prescribed my LDN. He is a wonderful, professiona...