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Multiple sclerosis, CCSVI and Balloon angioplasty
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. <<Click here to read more>>
MS and CCSVI: the state of play
There is currently a lot of research going on, either directly into connections between CCSVI and MS or some of the issues around it. What I’m covering here is only a few of the studies I’ve noticed over the last month or so.
First, a very quick introduction, for those new to the subject.Over the last couple of years CCSVI (chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency) has become a “hot topic” in the MS community. The theory goes that rather than being an auto-immune condition, as is the received wisdom, MS is in fact caused by malformations of veins in the neck and trunk. These malformations lead to blood backing up in the brain, and consequent deposits of iron, which cause the immune system to attack the myelin coating the nerves <<Click here to read more>>.
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