Daily Medical Records

Last November, the Italian doctor Paolo Zamboni, had aroused great hopes among people with multiple sclerosis with work suggesting that the disease is related to inadequate drainage of blood from the brain due to the narrowing of some veins (renal cerebrospinal fluid chronic venous IVCC) (1) and could be treated by surgery.

Dr. Zamboni launched Wednesday before members of the American Academy of Neurology meeting in Toronto, a call for caution. The treatment is still experimental and it must be under strict scientific supervision.

While clinics in some countries, including Poland, have begun offering the treatment, which is to unlock the veins of the neck with a balloon angioplasty, a technique already used to unblock the arteries leading to heart Dr. Zamboni urges patients not to undergo such treatment as their effectiveness and safety have not been better demonstrated.

Dr. Robert Zivadinov, University of Buffalo, who conducts studies on the role IVCC also urges people with the disease to expect that the efficacy of this treatment is best demonstrated prior to submit.

(1) The phenomenon would cause the creation of a new venous system to remedy the deficiency and promote drainage venous blood out of the central nervous system. According to the hypothesis of Dr. Zamboni, the level of membrane integrity of these vessels would offset lower than that of larger vessels and lead to leakage of blood into surrounding tissue. This is the origin of iron deposits that would trigger an immune response. (Source: Canadian multiple sclerosis),