This timely book includes a history of MS, an explanation of autoimmunity, and examines the recent research relating to this new theory of MS and how the venous model compares to the standard model of the disease.
... CCSVI-negative and CCSVI-positive subjects, and no significant correlation was found between severity of disability and number of positive CCSVI criteria. Interpretation.dOur results indicate that CCSVI has no role in either MS risk or ...
... CCSVI in MS were published by an Italian group in 2009 (1,2,3). These studies proposed specific tests and criteria for diagnosing CCSVI and procedures for its treatment. It was reported that 90% to 100% of people with MS have CCSVI ...
... CCSVI diagnosis.15 A multicentre trial involving 6 centres analysed Doppler ultrasound records and clinical data of 710 patients diagnosed with MS. All patients were analysed following the Zamboni protocol for CCSVI diagnosis. Eighty ...
... CCSVI with angioplasty or stenting. Two procedures, sometimes referred to as liberation therapy, have been proposed to treat CCSVI. The main procedure that has been used is balloon angioplasty. If this is unsuccessful, stents may be ...
... CCSVI into the existing knowledge, users began to construct new experience-based knowledge about CCSVI. Two months after the first CCSVI-related posting, they began to publish the first- or secondhand results of diagnostic and ...
... CCSVI.97 selves up to the possibility of a sham procedure in the context of a randomized trial (as seen in Albany, NY). While this work is trying to answer the question of whether or not CCSVI has a role in the pathogenesis and clinical ...
... CCSVI procedures, and when the intervention was unavailable through their local healthcare providers, many chose to travel abroad at great personal cost to countries like Costa Rica and Poland that offered the CCSVI procedure (Snyder et ...
... (CCSVI). In 2009, Dr. Paolo Zamboni — a vascular surgeon in Ferrara, Italy — introduced a phenomenon called chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) to the MS world. Following a study ... (CCSVI) 167 Understanding the CCSVI firestorm.
... (CCSVI) AND LIBERATION PROCEDURES An additional therapeutic approach, which is currently also being evaluated for MS, involves the condition known as “chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency” (CCSVI). CCSVI is a recently spectrum of ...