via CCSVI-sm.org - List of recently published international studies on CCSVI (March to September 2012)

Salvi F.,Bartolomei I.,Buccellato E.,Galeotti R.,Zamboni P. - Functional Neurology, 2012 Jan-Ma Venous angioplasty in multiple sclerosis: neurological outcome at two years in a cohort of relapsing-remitting patients http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22687168

R Beelen, L Maene, P Castenmiller, V Decoene, I Degrieck - Phlebology, 2012 Mar Evolution in quality of life and epidemiological impact after endovascular treatment of chronic cerebro-spinal venous insufficiency in patients with multiple sclerosis http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22312088

Zaniewski M, Simka M. - Rev Recent Clin Trials, 2012 May Biophysics of venous return from the brain from the perspective of the pathophysiology of chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22338621

Ciccone MM, Galeandro AI, Scicchitano P, Zito A, Gesualdo M, Sassara M, Cortese F, Dachille A, Carbonara R, Federico F, Livrea P, Trojano M. - Curr Neurovasc Res. 2012 May Multigate Quality Doppler Profiles and Morphological/Hemodynamic Alterations in Multiple Sclerosis Patients. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22475396

Bianca Weinstock-Guttman, Murali Ramanathan, Karen Marr, David Hojnack, Ralph H.B. Benedict, Charity Morgan, Eluen A Yeh, Ellen Carl, Cheryl Kennedy, Justine Reuther, Christina Brooks, Kristin Hunt, Makki Elfadil, Michelle Andrews and Robert Zivadinov - BMC Neurology, 2012 May Clinical correlates of chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency in multiple sclerosis http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2377/12/26/abstract

Coen M, Menegatti E, Salvi F, Mascoli F, Zamboni P, Gabbiani G, Bochaton-Piallat ML. - Cardiovasc Pathol. 2012 Jul 4 Altered collagen expression in jugular veins in multiple sclerosis. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22770861

Utriainen D, Feng W, Elias S, Latif Z, Hubbard D, Haacke EM. - Tech Vasc Interv Radiol. 2012 Jun Using magnetic resonance imaging as a means to study chronic cerebral spinal venous insufficiency in multiple sclerosis patients. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22640499

McDonald S, Iceton JB. - Tech Vasc Interv Radiol. 2012 Jun The use of Doppler ultrasound in the diagnosis of chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22640500

Sclafani SJ.- Tech Vasc Interv Radiol. 2012 Jun Intravascular ultrasound in the diagnosis and treatment of chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22640502

Mandato K, Englander M, Keating L, Vachon J, Siskin GP. - Tech Vasc Interv Radiol. 2012 Jun Catheter venography and endovascular treatment of chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22640501

Christopher Magnano MS, Claudiu Schirda PhD,Bianca Weinstock-Guttman MD, David S. Wack PhD, Eric Lindzen MD PhD, David Hojnacki MD, Niels Bergsland BS,Cheryl Kennedy LMSW, MPH, Pavel Belov XX, Michael G. Dwyer MS, Guy U. Poloni PhD, Clive B. Beggs PhD, Robert Zivadinov MD, PhD - JMRI Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 2012 Jun Cine cerebrospinal fluid imaging in multiple sclerosis http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22733409

Francesco Patti, Alessandra Nicoletti, Carmela Leone, Silvia Messina, Emanuele D’Amico, Salvatore Lo Fermo, Vincenza Paradisi, Elisa Bruno, Graziella Quattrocchi, Pierfrancesco Veroux, Luigi Di Pino, Luca Costanzo, Mario Zappia - J Magn Reson Imaging. 2012 Jun Multiple Sclerosis and CCSVI: A Population-Based Case Control Study http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22733409

Hampson CO, Soares GM, Jaffan AA. - Tech Vasc Interv Radiol. 2012 Jun Reported outcomes after the endovascular treatment of chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22640503

Marian Simka,Tomasz Ludyga,Marek Kazibudzki,Pawel Latacz,Marcin Swierad - JRSM - Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, August 2012 Multiple sclerosis, an unlikely cause of chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency: retrospective analysis of catheter venography http://shortreports.rsmjournals.com/content/3/8/56.full

Donato Gemmati, Giulia Zeri, Elisa Orioli, Francesca E De Gaetano, Fabrizio Salvi, Ilaria Bartolomei, Sandra D’Alfonso, Claudia Dall’Osso, Maurizio A Leone, Ajay V Singh, Rosanna Asseltaand Paolo Zamboni - BMC Medical Genetics August 2012 Polymorphisms in the genes coding for iron binding and transporting proteins are associated with disability, severity, and early progression in multiple sclerosis http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2350/13/70/abstract

David Hubbard, Donald Ponec, Justin Gooding, Richard Saxon, Heidi Sauder, Mark Haacke - JVIR - Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, August 2012 Clinical Improvement after Extracranial Venoplasty in Multiple Sclerosis http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22951366

Marian Simka, Piotr Janas, Tomasz Ludyga, Pawel Latacz, Marek Kazibudzki - Vascular Disease managment, September 2012 Endovascular Treatment for Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis http://vasculardiseasemanagement.com/content/endovascular-treatment-chronic-cerebrospinal-venous-insufficiency-patients-multiple-sclerosis

Paolo Zamboni, Erica Menegatti, Paolo Conforti, Simon Shepherd, Mirko Tessari, Clive Beggs - J.Vascular Surger,y 2012 Sep Assessment of cerebral venous return by a novel plethysmography method http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22521804


Neurological Research, Volume 34, Number 8, October 2012
Vascular Pathology of Multiple Sclerosis.

Guest Editors: Alireza Minagar and Robert Zivadinov
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/nres/2012/00000034/00000008/

Editorial:
Zivadinov, Robert; Alexander, Steven J; Minagar, Alireza pp. 735-737(3)
Vascular pathology of multiple sclerosis

Special issue article:
Minagar, Alireza; Maghzi, Amir H; McGee, Jeanie C; Alexander, J Steven pp. 738-745(8) - Emerging roles of endothelial cells in multiple sclerosis pathophysiology and therapy http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22828184

Christiansen, Christian Fynbo pp. 746-753(8) - Risk of vascular disease in patients with multiple sclerosis: a review http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22709796

Yuval Karmon, Murali Ramanathan, Alireza Minagar, Robert Zivadinov, Bianca Weinstock-Guttman, pp. 754-760(7) Arterial, venous and other vascular risk factors in multiple sclerosis http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22971465

Zivadinov, Robert; Ramanathan, Murali; Ambrus, Julian; Hussein, Sara; Ramasamy, Deepa P; Dwyer,Michael G; Bergsland, Niels; Minagar, Alireza; Weinstock-Guttman, Bianca, pp. 761-769(9) Anti-phospholipid antibodies are associated with response to interferon-beta1a treatment in MS: results from a 3-year longitudinal study http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22971466

Morovic, Sandra; Zamboni, Paolo, pp. 770-779(10) CCSVI is associated with multiple sclerosis http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22971467
Utriainen, David; Trifan, Gabriela; Sethi, Sean; Elias, Saba; Hewett, Joseph; Feng, Wei; Haacke, E Mark, pp. 780-792(13) Magnetic resonance imaging signatures of vascular pathology in multiple sclerosis http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22971468

Beggs, Clive B; Shepherd, Simon J; Dwyer, Michael G; Polak, Paul; Magnano, Christopher; Carl, Ellen; Poloni, Guy U; Weinstock-Guttman, Bianca; Zivadinov, Robert, pp. 793-801(9) Sensitivity and specificity of SWI venography for detection of cerebral venous alterations in multiple sclerosis http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22709857

Feng, Wei; Utriainen, David; Trifan, Gabriela; Elias, Saba; Sethi, Sean; Hewett, Joseph; Haacke, E Mark, pp. 802-809(8) Characteristics of flow through the internal jugular veins at cervical C2/C3 and C5/C6 levels for multiple sclerosis patients using MR phase contrast imaging http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22971469

Diaconu, Claudiu I; Staugaitis, Susan M; Fox, Robert J; Rae-Grant, Alexander; Schwanger, Cynthia; McBride, Jennifer M, pp. 810-818(9) A technical approach to dissecting and assessing cadaveric veins pertinent to chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency in multiple sclerosis http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22971470

Dolic, Kresimir; Weinstock-Guttman, Bianca; Marr, Karen; Valnarov, Vesela; Carl, Ellen; Hagemeier, Jesper; Kennedy, Cheryl; Kilanowski, Colleen; Hojnacki, David; Ramanathan, Murali; Zivadinov, Robert, pp. 819-827(9) Heart disease, overweight, and cigarette smoking are associated with increased prevalence of extra-cranial venous abnormalities http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22971471