"What if we're missing something? What if there is a vascular piece to this? What if there's a subset in which this means something? What if we're throwing the baby out with the bathwater?" And what if, down the road, it becomes clear that "we missed it," he said.

Neurologists should not be dismissive of a therapy that a good proportion of their patients are interested in and may even want to try, he added. "We can't throw it out; we don't have the data yet to dismiss it."


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Even though many neurologists have dismissed this theory, it's too early to know for certain that chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency doesn't contribute to MS, one expert says.