Do you know someone with MS? Do they know about the use of angioplasty to clear blogged veins in the neck? Use of this technique has been put on hold at Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, CA. Who else is doing it on the west coast? Here is some info:
Of 500 patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) 62% had chronic cerebrospinal veinous insufficiency (CCSVI). MS is not alone in having chronic cerebrospinal veinous insufficiency. In other diseases about 45% also have CCSVI.
Dr. Zamboni, an Italian doctor, treated his own wife with angioplasty — a balloon to clean out the vein that was clogged. Three years later she has had no MS attacks.
Stanford Hospital put on hold its program for treating MS patients with CCSVI after one patient died and another had to have emergency heart surgery.
“Stay on current drug therapy” says Dr. Zivadinov, associate professor of neurology at the University of Buffalo in New York.
Well, that is conservative advise that sounds good. But for patients that experience numerous side effects from the drug therapy that advise may sound hollow.
Stem cells are “non-specialized†cells that have the potential to form into other types of specific cells, such as blood, muscles or nerves. They are unlike “differentiated” cells which have already become whatever organ or structure they are in the body. Stem cells are present throughout our body, but more abundant in a fetus. Medical researchers and scientists believe that stem cell therapy will, in the near future, advance medicine dramatically and change the course of disease treatment. This is because stem cells have the ability to grow into any kind of cell and, if transplanted into the body, will… Read more »
Stem cells are “non-specialized†cells that have the potential to form into other types of specific cells, such as blood, muscles or nerves. They are unlike “differentiated” cells which have already become whatever organ or structure they are in the body. Stem cells are present throughout our body, but more abundant in a fetus. Medical researchers and scientists believe that stem cell therapy will, in the near future, advance medicine dramatically and change the course of disease treatment. This is because stem cells have the ability to grow into any kind of cell and, if transplanted into the body, will… Read more »
The CCSVI Liberation Treatment could be the cure but fact remains that the rate of re-occlusion is stuck at 50% and MS patients being treated in the European and Asian countries end up suffering as they did, 3 months ago. While Big Pharmaceutical Corporations and governments in the US and Canada are coming up with new ideas to stop any advancements to the CCSVI theory (Like the superbugs, etc.), millions continue to travel to countries like India and Poland to get this simple procedure and no valuable data is recorded to support the CCSVI theory. Unless we get our position… Read more »
I was just chatting with my friend about this the other day over lunch . Don’t remember how we landed on the subject actually , they brought it up. I do remember eating a excellent steak salad with sunflower seeds on it. I digress…
How are you doing now and what has most helped?