Multiple Sclerosis is a devastating disease in which patients usually have progressive paralysis throughout their body. Treatment options are limited because researchers still have not found a cause for the initiation of the killing of nerve cells that occurs. What researchers do know is that something allows the immune system to become activated and attack components of the nervous system. However, what sets it off remains a mystery.
That is why, in 2009, when Italian vascular surgeon Dr. Paulo Zamboni proposed that MS might be caused by leaky veins leading to the brain people took notice. He said that a procedure to clear up the blood vessels would stop the disease in its tracks and called the condition chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency, or CCSVI. He suggested that opening the veins of the neck and chest with an angioplasty-like device would relieve the symptoms and eventually could stop the disease.
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