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- Mon Aug 23, 2010 11:54 pm
- Forum: Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI)
- Topic: FDA approved vein stent
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3059
Yes. I agree. More work needs to be done to improve stent patency rates, compatibility and deliverability if to be used in the jugular or azygos veins. I also don't think stents are the only solution. The make up of the stenosis is unknown. I don't believe it is typical atherosclerosis found in arte...
- Mon Aug 23, 2010 8:41 pm
- Forum: Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI)
- Topic: FDA approved vein stent
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3059
- Mon Aug 23, 2010 7:59 pm
- Forum: Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI)
- Topic: FDA approved vein stent
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3059
Hi, I mentioned in a different forum, that industry needs to be partnered with to develop the products. The physicians can only do so much with the tools they have. Then industry needs to lobby CMS, a division of the Federal Government, to approve reimbursement for this product. Once a DRG code gets...
- Sun Aug 22, 2010 10:18 am
- Forum: Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI)
- Topic: list of all trials
- Replies: 11
- Views: 19539
Sorry - it's clinicaltrials.gov
Hi - I made an error. It's www.clinicaltrials.gov It's a US government website. The federal government also controls the reimbursement of this procedure through an agency called CMS. They establish the DRG codes for the hospital reimbursement as well as the CPT codes for the physician reimbursement....
- Sun Aug 22, 2010 10:12 am
- Forum: Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI)
- Topic: list of all trials
- Replies: 11
- Views: 19539
Clinicaltrials.org
You can also go to www.clinicaltrials.org. This is a website that clinical trials should register with in order to be published in a peer reviewed journal. This gives the study some credibility.
To my knowledge there is only one US study on this website. The one in Albany, NY.
To my knowledge there is only one US study on this website. The one in Albany, NY.
- Sun Aug 22, 2010 10:08 am
- Forum: Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI)
- Topic: Dr Mehta
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2284
Dr Mehta
Where is Dr Mehra? Is he is Florida or Michigan?