CCSVI Clinic Physicians (www.ccsviclinic.ca) have applied for an International ethics board study approval that will allow them to use the data on patients where their new treatment protocol is being studied. Dr. Alurkar, the Interventional Neurosurgeon at Noble Hospital has done thousands of Intra and Extra cranial angio-procedures over the past 10 years. His studies indicate that it's critical to position and movement control patients who have had venous angioplasty post-procedure, monitor them for days afterward with various imaging techniques, for other symptoms, and re-treat if necessary. CCSVI Clinic is already sponsoring patients for this protocol with a 10-day stay in the hospital where patients will be imaged daily, post procedure. If there is evidence of re-occlusion, they will be taken back to the OR and re-treated. Dr. Alurkar's past studies on non-MS patients with the same venous blockages have noted a cascade of distal failure points in venous vessels post angioplasty, and he would expect that the study with MS patients will produce the same results. His normal treatment regime includes a protocol which includes a high concentration on post-procedure aftercare and follow-up. To comply with the ethics board approval, once home, patients will be examined and interviewed at regular intervals by CCSVI Clinic Physician Researchers for several years after the treatment to study the changes.

More and more MS patients are reporting initial success (including vascular and some neuro differences) as a result of the venous angioplasty (liberation therapy) but then regression to previous symptoms sometimes within weeks post-procedure. It is estimated that the failure rate of the "liberation therapy" is 50% or higher, even through the most experienced and best-known surgeons in Poland and Albany, NY. Consequently, there is increasing concern amongst patients that the procedure hypothesis needs to include a post-procedure protocol that is more effective than simply releasing the patient from the hospital or clinic within hours or a day of the procedure. Dr. Alurkar's previous studies reveal there are many other considerations that indicate a stabilization period, re-examination, and re-treatment if necessary. Where protocol is followed, the current results have been consistently high enough to prove Alurkar's hypothesis.

Noble Hospital and CCSVI Clinic are expecting ethics board approval for their study and results will be released on an ongoing basis given the already high interest in the findings. Regular research updates will be published on the CCSVI Clinic website. Questions may be directed toward the CCSVI Clinc administration at 1-888-419-6855.