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The technician in Barrie told me that she had a way of checking that the azygous was open using the doppler ultrasound. I am a Dr Siskin patient and he couldn't find my azygous but Angela said I did have one and that I had bloodflow through it! Hooch, the azygos, as well as other veins in the chest...

I hope this doesn't get taken the wrong way - no, more than that, I hope this isn't the wrong place to pose this question (because I don't think there's anything wrong with the question) ... I don't intend it to be so - but I think SoapDiva's comments brought the thoughts on to me. A Thrombosis ... ...

Good stuff HP ... Glad he was able to help!

Anything else you've noticed in these few short days?

Can someone explain to me what this entails? I know the jugular veins are semi-superficial ... so they should be easy to access. I assume then the Dr. finds where there's a good point in the jugular vein ... and splices in the new vein, and then ties it into the brachocephalic (innominate) vein at t...

Cece: Maybe of interest to you ... but I'm putting together an in-depth (as many as I reasonably can) chart of how the veins of the body tie together. What drains into what ... What a stenosis (of any kind) in one, and how it may affect other areas ... I'm interested to see if we can tie my argument...

personally, I don't think either of us said anything inflammatory ... I think she (jimmy) just didn't want to see it turn into anything. This forum has been peaceful and pleasant to be at lately - with a lot of good discussion (see cece and I debating the role of the azygous - and presenting differi...

apologies ... i tried to be funny and not inflamatory.

I guess I only succeeded at one.

Lyon, did you have a chance to read what I posted recently about permissive lesions? Option #4 is that the abnormal veins tip people over into having MS when a secondary factor is involved (a multitude of abnormal veins? a hyperactive immune system?). Treatment is to treat the permissive lesion(s)....

The technician in Barrie told me that she had a way of checking that the azygous was open using the doppler ultrasound. I am a Dr Siskin patient and he couldn't find my azygous but Angela said I did have one and that I had bloodflow through it! That is something!! They check the vertebral veins (I ...

Happy birthday sir ...

It wasn't me though.

Interesting he can correlate the clinical discourse of CCSVI with the disease of MS - slide 60 ... and that's basically what we've all seen. The twisting of the azygous he seems to think is worth stenting (slide 53) - which I wonder if that is the opening/closing (phasic) of the azygous. All of thes...

Cece: Thought this might interest you ... from the Loobie Round3 thread Lew, I am wondering if Dr. Dake just looked at your azygos, or tried ballooning it. At the Symposium in Brooklyn in July, Dr. Sinan told us that he uses the balloon as a diagnostic tool to find problems that simple IVUS and fluo...

Emma's feet warmed up the same day, along with her hands. However they now ebb and flow with heat and cold, but they aren't the stone cold ice blocks they were pre procedure. He hands went blue yestersday, which at night was followed but a lot of arm and leg pain. Today her right hand is much warme...

don't get me wrong, my wife's feet are warm from time to time - not ALWAYS blocks of ice - same goes for her hands from time to time when upright (but after her jugular liberation now EVERY time she lays down, boom, almost instant warm up) ... (of course, we may all remember that her azygous is open...

But I believe it was Dr. Sclafani who has mentioned, a slowdown in the system in one area, will slow-down the system entirely to match the slowest point. If your jugulars are totally occluded (both of them). The body is going to recognize that and try to compensate somehow ... either put less blood ...