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This is coming up next month. Hopefully the 4th conference will accelerate the process of diagnosis and treatment for CCSVI. It should be very interesting.

Spoke with Dr. Ahn on Sunday...he is very aware of CCSVI and the TOS overlap. Due to his schedule he is unable to attend the ISNVD Conference in Feb, but he is very interested in sending one of his team members to the meeting. I passed along Kelly Denz's (ISNVD) contact info to him. Dr. Ahn is a rea...

cheer, this fits perfectly with the link on the benefits of REM sleep....the connection to oligodentrocytes & myelin. http://www.thisisms.com/forum/chronic-cerebrospinal-venous-insufficiency-ccsvi-f40/topic22977.html The Glymphatic System, REM sleep, CSF flow, venous return all support the CCSVI...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131008152218.htm In studies appearing in recent issues of Stem Cell Journal and Developmental Cell, the researchers show that endothelial cells -- the cells that make up the structure of blood vessels -- are powerful biological machines that drive regener...

This is an abstract from 2013..... D Liu,1 BO Fernandez,3 NN Lang,2 JM Gallagher,4 DE Newby,2 M Feelisch3 and RB Weller1,5 1Dermatology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2Cardiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 3Medicine, University of Southampton, Southamp...

From Dr. Richard Weller's earlier work...prior to the paper published this year. Eur Heart J. 2010 May;31(9):1041-5. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehq069. Epub 2010 Mar 9. Feelisch M, Kolb-Bachofen V, Liu D, Lundberg JO, Revelo LP, Suschek CV, Weller RB. PMID: 20215123 http://eurheartj.oxfordjournals.org/c...

Randomized Trial of Immediate versus Delayed Transluminal Percutaneous Angioplasty to treat Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency Would interested participants consider enrollment if there was the possibility of a 6 month delay in their treatment for CCSVI? All participants would receive treatm...

It certainly seems likely that cerebral hypoperfusion due to CCSVI would have a negative impact on the ability to obtain REM stage sleep. The reduction in sufficient oxygen, glucose, various hormones, and CSF flow due to CCSVI could certainly help explain the impairment from a human perspective. htt...

I will contact Dr. Ahn's office (mail & email), mention our interest in his study and note the ISNVD Meeting in San Francisco, Feb 7-9, 2014. It may be of some benefit for the ISNVD communiations staff to send Dr. Ahn an information packet, if possible. It seems that joint TOS/CCSVI or CCSVI/TOS...

Here is a bio-sketch for Dr. Ahn. With more than 30 years of medical experience, board-certified vascular surgeon Samuel S. Ahn, MD, has taught at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from 1986 to 2006, holding the positions of Lecturer and Examiner...

We were looking at this abstract and thought it would be a good idea if these researchers attend the ISNVD Meeting in SF in February. They may not even be aware of the ISNVD. We have dedicated a number of recent posts to the discussion of thoracic outlets syndrome (TOS), a condition which causes com...

This is the actual abstract for the paper that will be presented to other surgeons at the Fall semi-annual meeting of The Texas Surgical Society to be held in Houston. TITLE: Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty as Therapy for Thoracic Outlet Symptoms AUTHORS: Ahn, Samuel S; Chen, Julia F; Miller, ...

Agreed 1eye, we must keep on measuring...we must keep searching for answers. I found the abstract for the citation you provided earlier CeCe. http://universityvascular.com/tag/thoracic-outlet-syndrome/ We have dedicated a number of recent posts to the discussion of thoracic outlets syndrome (TOS), a...

As you can imagine, Dr. Mark Haacke is very involved with the development of new imaging modalities and techniques. http://www.mrimaging.com/category.77.html Dr. E. Mark Haacke is the primary inventor of SWI along with his fellow co-inventors both Dr. Juergen Reichenbach and Dr. Yi Wang. We have dev...

This is interesting.....related to vena cava flow restriction...

Vena cava compression: An increase in the resistance of the vena cava, as occurs when the thoracic vena cava becomes compressed during a Valsalva maneuver or during late pregnancy, decreases return.