Nicoletta Mantovani is the lovely widow of beloved Italian tenor, Luciano Pavarotti.  She is also the head of the CCSVI Society in Italy, and an outspoken proponent for Dr. Zamboni and his research.  On Monday, an interview with Nicoletta in People Magazine will hit the news stands. (Not sure if this will be international, or Italy only)  

It has been six months since Nicoletta was treated for CCSVI, and she is speaking out in the press regarding the affects of venoplasty.  She believes she has been "healed from her MS" and is quite vocal about this reality.  Here is a national news story in Italy, translated in google. (We'll have a better translation coming later today, thanks to Christopher)

Please note that Dr. Zamboni was also interviewed, and he wants everyone to know that he in no way considers angioplasty a "cure" and is a bit concerned (unsettled) about use of this type of language.  He wants his studies to prove efficacy--and he tells the press that restenosis is still a concern, and that CCSVI is not an issue for all with MS.

(I also worry that these kinds of anecdotal articles are used as proof of medical miracles, since this does not happen for everyone treated for CCSVI---however, I have a living miracle in my home.  My husband is now almost 4 years without MS progression, since his venoplasty.  He and my son are rehearsing jazz in the other room.  Jeff was up at 5 am this morning, made the coffee, wrote some music for his new show and is looking forward to yard work after church.  He has energy and vitally that were gone for the two years after his MS diagnosis.) 

CCSVI treatment does work miracles for some.  We need research into why. (Joan)

Here is Nicoletta's story.

Nicoletta Mantovani, "Healed from sclerosis, no symptoms at six months after surgery"

The widow of Luciano Pavarotti, subject to the angioplasty operation of the method Zamboni says to the weekly magazine People: "I was given a second life"

ROME - "Six months after the operation I consider myself cured of multiple sclerosis." It 'a statement intended to make a sensation and reopen the controversy that interview with the weekly "People" issue, on newsstands Monday, Nicoletta Mantovani. The widow of Luciano Pavarotti has in fact entrusted to the method, still widely discussed in international scientific circles, the surgeon Paolo Zamboni of Ferrara. 

"I'm not only completely without symptom: I was given a second life," says Mantovani interview in which, among other announces her new commitment in film production. 

The Zamboni Method, which trials are in progress in ten Italian regions was authorized only this year by the Ministry of Health, makes use of angioplasty, which aims to solve the problem of chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (summarized in the acronym English Cssvi). The narrowing of the veins ranging from the heart to the brain, according to the Zamboni school, is one of the causes of the mechanism of autoaggression to the nervous system by the immune system, which generates multiple sclerosis. 

Just the risks of identification, in public opinion, the problem Cssvi with multiple sclerosis and consequent easy enthusiasm of therapy as a  "miracle" triggered the controversy that always accompanied the debate around the proven method by the Director of the Centre vascular diseases at the University of Ferrara. The same Paolo Zamboni, however, even in a recent interview with the Republic 4 , had warned of the hopes of easy solutions, noting that CCSVI is only one of the possible causes of multiple sclerosis, which is not always present in patients with MS and that in the mid-targeted interventions in cases of recurrence, however, touch 50%. 

Faced with such a sensitive issue, the declaration of Nicoletta Mantovani is therefore a bit 'unsettling even than the prudence of the doctors who carry out the method of treatment to her later.

link to repubblica article