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There has been much talk about CCSVI's effect on oxygenation of the brain, I always want to pipe up and say don't forget about the glucose needs of the brain too. That too is likely depleted when outflow is blocked. Some previous thinking on fast improvements was that it could be placebo, vascular ...

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/WFive/2009112 ... on_091121/

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after 11 mins dr Zamboni talks on his wife's condition: 3 years after procedure, no neurological deficits can be found.

Joan, thanks for your reaction. The fact that we are exchanging ideas here between Europe and the US and that this can be seen by the whole world is due to US policies, namely those that made the Internet thrive. Your country has (at least had) the power to move old things and entrenched interests a...

What I find interesting is that it is neurological/radiological teams head up the European IRs--CIRS. Barkhoff does have a lot of influence. In the states and Canada, the IRs are lead by cardio-thoracic doctors. Perhaps this might explain the radically different response to CCSVI angioplasty? Dr. D...

Thousand of patients have been treated, evidences accumulate; this is no longer single sourced. Treatment centres are mushrooming, around the world. The liberation treatment grows like a grassroot campaign. More and more people will be able to go local, and get proper after care. A position statemen...

you may find more information on http://www.overcomingmultiplesclerosis.org/Recovery-Program/Sunlight-and-Vitamin-D/ I take about 5 g of cod liver oil a day. Besides Vit D, this also contains Omega 3 fats. For the role of fats, see http://www.overcomingmultiplesclerosis.org/Recovery-Program/Program-...

For a good study, you need to know what you are going to do, you need to be clear in your mind what you want to investigate, what your objectives are. If you are not clear, you get a system of what we call rubish in, rubish out. Sometimes, when I come across new (PhD) studies on MS, I get the impres...

Leonard said: I think that some people may have stronger veins (more Vit D during their childhood/ their mother metabolised more sun during pregnancy?), veins that are less susceptible to microbleedings. so, maybe, some people will also have stenoses but do not develop MS for that reason. Is this s...

this is an old study by Dutch doctors, among them neurologists. they are part of the same circles as Freedman et al. it was first reported in July, now gets renewed visibility because it was put on-line end of October. Zamboni comments on the Dutch study start around 4:00. in summary, MRI is not the...

I am an MS patient myself and I understand very well what moves patients to seek treatment abroad. but the situation as it is developing with thousands of patients having to travel thousands of miles is not a healthy one. this is often not a one-fix thing and needs continuous follow up and after car...

The general consent is growing that an impaired blood flow (ccsvi) causes MS. But the cascade of effects that follows on from the impaired blood flow is probably very complex and subject to further study by neurologists worldwide to find what they call the PROVE. As a patient, what I find is as inte...

at one point the new German release says: ... there is not enough prove... I hear exactly the same from neurologists over here. but I ask myself, and I ask them, prove of what? never got an answer, still the question is an important one. it may be true that we do not know the whole cascade of effect...

Over here, cardio IRs and other IRs are two different distinct groups of IRs. The cardio specialists typically get paid 3 times as much per intervention as other IRs (who do the limbs, other organs and so). Why? Because there is more risk involved when working on the heart than on the other organs o...

The article raises three questions. on the availability of budget: non-sense argument. you have to judge the case on its merits, there is enough money for good cases on the ethics ie the absense of scientific proof of the biological link between CCSVI and MS: is non-sense; you can not plausibly deny...

dear all, please do not underestimate the importance of this position by IR. this will help to tip the balance over to the other side. this is seen by politicians, other IR docters etc who will feel themselves strengthened by this. the gates will then open. of course they are careful and cautious bu...