Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency in patients with MS
Submitted by art on Tue, 2009-06-02 06:53.
This article presents an interesting alternate theory for MS as a vascular disease.
MS and venous outflow anomalies were dramatically associated. Subsequently, venography demonstrated in MS, and not in controls, the presence of multiple severe extracranial stenosis, affecting the principal cerebrospinal venous segments; this provides a picture of chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) with four different patterns of distribution of stenosis and substitute circle. Moreover, relapsing-remitting and secondary progressive courses were associated with CCSVI patterns significantly different from those of primary progressive
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Lots of discussion going on
Lots of discussion going on at http://www.thisisms.com/forum-40.html on this subject. Apparently a doctor at Stanford has started treating people for this.
Art: Suggest reading of
Art:
Suggest reading of medical text books in the 1950s and 1960 point out these finding too. Many individuals were intially placed on lasix, blood thinners.
Other areas of potential research are gastric inflamation and inflamation of the linings of the blood vessels.
Saddly we have not followed up on the basic research necessary to explain what are obviously many diseases attributed to the diagnosis of MS.
Would like to suggest once again we need physicians not associated with drug companies that would direct basic research into the disease.
Thanks
Mike