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Saturday, November 6, 2010 4:30 AM
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Ken Torbert
Dr. Campalani: I Would Get It Done Every Six Months!from For Greet
"Yesterday, I got a call from Gianfranco Campalani, an Italian cardiovascular surgeon living in Belfast who I've written about before.
He called to fill me in on a conference that happened last weekend in
Glasgow, organized byThe Essential Health Clinic and the MS-CCSVI-UK branch.
While telling me about the conference, I found out that Gianfranco traveled back down to his hometown of Ferrera this summer and was
treated again, making it his third angioplasty treatment in three years.
Gianfranco, as you may recall, has primary progressive Multiple Sclerosis. His first treatment was done by Paolo Zamboni's team three years ago.
Last summer, he started having back and leg spasms again and convinced
colleagues at the hospital he works at in Belfast to treat him there.
They balloon angioplastied his right jugular at that time, but when he
returned to Ferrera three months ago, they found his left jugular had
restenosed. He says his outcome was fantastic.
I asked him if he was worried about the integrity of his veins with all that angioplasting going on. He says no. He told me that if he had to,
he would get it done every six months. He also quipped a little aside
that as a cardiac surgeon, he knows a thing or two about the integrity
of venous structures.
The question of re-angioplasting, however, is a topic that he discussed with different members of the presenting panel at the CCSVI - The Way
Forward conference. The panel comprised a who's who of CCSVI and
included Poland's Marian Simka, E. Mark Haacke of MRV fame, Bulgaria's
Ivo Petrov, Jordan's Mamoon Al-Omari as well as Chair Tom Gilhooly and
Donald Reid of the Essential Health Clinic, who had performed the UK's
first CCSVI treatments just days before.
What emerged from his discussions with them, as well as presentations from the panelists as told to me by Michele Findlay, stenting is a hot
topic. There are talks about stents being developed with blood thinner
releasers being built into them. There are talks about dissolving stents
and expandable stents. And then there's the position of the doctors
themselves, who appear to be recommending stenting only as a last
resort, not a first option." ...full post
I found this blog while looking for information about CCSVI - The Way Forward conference held in Glasgow a few days ago. Because I like it a lot, I've decided to introduce it to you.
A few hours later when I repeated my search The Essential Health Clinic announced that they will provide all necessary data in 7-10 days.
http://ccsvinews.blogspot.com/2010/11/dr-campalani-i-would-get-it-done-every.html
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