With the eagerly anticipated research studies on the role of CCSVI in Multiple Sclerosis, and clinical trials evaluating balloon angioplasty as a treatment for CCSVI and Multiple Sclerosis underway, there finally seems to be a positive step in the direction of this controversial therapy. One which many Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients and caregivers have anxiously been waiting for a medical verdict on.

Indeed the technique has started to be called “Liberation Therapy” by many in the Multiple Sclerosis community.

Multiple Sclerosis, widely thought to be an autoimmune disease, although it hasn’t been proven as such, is a chronic disabling neurological disease that attacks the Central Nervous System which is made up of brain, spinal cord and optic nerves.

In 2008 Dr Paolo Zamboni, a vascular specialist put forward his theory that Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency, also known as CCSVI is the causing factor of Multiple Sclerosis. Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI) is a condition with a compromised flow of blood in veins draining the central nervous system. Dr Zamboni also suggested an endovascular treatment called balloon angioplasty to remove these blockages.

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