NEW RESEARCH: Venoplasty to relieve CCSVI is shown to reduce headache and fatigue severity over three years in a select group of MS patients.
"The intervention of PTA was associated with a large and sustained (>3 years) reduction in migraine disability score in both RR and SP MS patients. While a similar initial post-PTA reduction in fatigue severity score was also observed, this was not maintained in the SP and PP patients, although it remained significant at follow-up (>3 years) in the RR MS patients. This suggests that venoplasty might be a useful intervention for treating patients with persistent headaches and selected concomitant obstructive disease of the IJVs. "

Objectives Multiple sclerosis (MS) patients frequently suffer from headaches and fatigue, and many reports have linked headaches with intracranial and/or extracranial venous obstruction. We therefore designed a study involving MS patients diagnosed with obstructive disease of internal jugular veins....