More from Nicoletta Mantovani on her 25 years with MS, her treatment, her recovery - facebook prikbord

I have not found the People/Gente article (yet)----but here's more background from Nicoletta on her life with MS from a Bologna newspaper interview. Cleaned up translation below. Wow. Joan

link in Italian

THE INTERVIEW

Mantovani and Zamboni "I have been healed from multiple sclerosis"

Pavarotti's widow, afected by the disease for over twenty years: "I'm born again, my life is back to normal. The scientific community should not split, but understand how to make the most of this experimentation"

of ROSARY OF RAYMOND

Nicoletta Mantovani

"My life has changed. It is normal again. I discovered a new world." Only those who fight every morning for twenty five years against the strain of living can understand what it means not to have the symptoms of multiple sclerosis, a devastating disease. Nicoletta Mantovani, the widow of Luciano Pavarotti, with a small voice speaks into the phone, "I'm fine now. I do not know if it is a miracle, but I'm fine. The Zamboni therapy worked. And I want to tell the whole world."

Six months ago, Nicoletta Mantovani had undergone one of the treatments that in recent years has increasingly divided and divides the international scientific community: the method of Paolo Zamboni, a vascular surgeon from Ferrara's theory that links the causes of multiple sclerosis to obstruction of jugular veins. A study is now being tested in Emilia-Romagna, with funding from the Region.

"I felt the first symptoms at 18 years - she says -: the progressive loss of vision in one eye, very strong dizziness, numbness in the hands, little sensitivity from the navel down and a perpetual fatigue. I could not do anything." The years passed, suffering. The girl became a woman. She traveled, went to the U.S., had the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. Since 1994 Nicoletta was getting worse. In 2009 she became minister for Culture in Bologna, and that year "I met Zamboni at a conference. I was skeptical, I did try a lot of care for my MS. But I realized that his words could make sense. "

Six months ago the procedure was made by Dr. Francesco Mascoli, director of vascular surgery at the University of Ferrara, who applied the venoplasty method. The surgery was more difficult than the others, the famous technique of "ballooning", to free the blocked vein and restore the proper flow of blood between the brain and the heart, was not enough. After years of illness, the jugular vein had to be replaced.

Nicoletta's fine today. MRI says she has no more brain damage. But do not say it is a miracle. You do not understand the hatred of the scientific community: "There are doctors who think that this is the placebo effect. Are you kidding me? Lots of people are better off, if you are serious scientists and you want to understand, do not reject scientific testing . This procedure should be coordinated more and more and better and better. People travel and go abroad into private centers, the risk is even higher in those cases. who wants this? In Italy there are 60 thousand MS patients, a strong community that wants answers. " She smiles, Nicoletta Mantovani: "Between me and the rest of the world there was a glass wall. It has been shattered."