Multiple Sclerosis - A Vascular Etiology? - Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences by Venöse Multiple Sklerose, CVI & SVI, CCSVI - facebook prikbord

WOW! That's the find of the year - some Neurologist without COI although with moral faculty.:

Canadian Neurologist Support of CCSVI: Multiple Sclerosis - A Vascular Etiology? (Candadian Journal of Neurological Sciences)

Posted by Sandra Miller on December 7, 2010 at 11:30pm, at CCSVI Locator: http://ccsvi-ms.ning.com/profiles/blogs/canadian-neurologist-support

Dr. Luna, part of the CCSVI interventionist team at Hospital Anglees,
brought this paper to my attention, describing it as "a thorough review of CCSVI that is it very complete and supporting of what we've been doing".

The review was published last month in the CANADIAN JOURNAL OF
NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES. Did you know, in 1937 it was first proposed that

MS might be caused by venous obstruction? The author of the review is a

highly reputable neurosurgeon.

"CONCLUSION: The possibility that venous reflux, reversal of flow, and venous hypertension

are the primary inciting causes of at least some forms of MS is currently a defensible hypothesis."

ABSTRACT: From the earliest pathological studies the perivenular localization of
the demyelination in multiple sclerosis (MS) has been observed. It has

recently been suggested that obstructions to venous flow or inadequate

venous valves in the great veins in the neck, thorax and abdomen can

cause damaging backflow into the cerebral and spinal cord circulations.

Paolo Zamboni and colleagues have demonstrated abnormal venous

circulation in some multiple sclerosis patients using non-invasive

sonography and invasive venography. Furthermore, they have obtained

apparent clinical improvement or stabilization by endovascular

ballooning of points of obstruction in the great veins in some, at

least temporarily.

If non-invasive observations by others validate their initial observations of a significantly increased
prevalence of venous obstructions in MS then trials of

angioplasty/stenting would be justified in selected cases in view of the

biological plausibility of the concept.