Venous Multiple Sclerosis | CCSVI

Where can I donate funds to support research of venous multiple sclerosis?

Dr. Haacke created a dedicated Website for detecting CCSVI with MRI-technology:

http://www.ms-mri.com

The website contains:

• A short description of CCSVI.
• An MRI protocoll with all necessary information (see Toolbox): SWI/MRV/FQ protocol
• A presentation: Iron and Chronic Cerebral Spinal Vascular Insufficiency (CCSVI): 1 October, 2009, MRA Club
• A proposition for a strategy in order to achieve rapidly advances in multiple sclerosis, see protocol.
• And other material.

Dr. Marian Simka has written a description and an instruction to the doppler ultrasound examination in a multiple sclerosis patient. This examination allows discovering chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI).

The document "The many sonographic faces of the chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency: How to perform doppler examination in a multiple sclerosis patient" (PDF 2MB) contains several illustrations of obstacles and refluxes.

Two examples from the document:

Fig. 6: Bilateral occlusions in lower portions of the internal jugular veins usually result in abnormally high outflow through vertebral pathway in the supine position.

Fig. 10: Stenosis in the internal jugular vein

I would like to inform my neurologist about CCSVI. What should I give him or her?

We recommend you give your neurologist the following material:

1. The PDF files of the bold written articles of
   http://csvi-ms.net/en/content/publications
   should be printed (the PDF links are at the end of the line),
2. the research foundation
   http://www.fondazionehilarescere.org/
   should be mentioned since there are all the important articles of Prof. Zamboni listed,
3. and the information of the Bologna conference (08.09.2009)
   Program (PDF)
   Press release (Word)
   should be printed out.

Optionally, a link to this website http://csvi-ms.net could be added, as there are other important links listed and the site is regularly updated.

"Dawson's Fingers" is a condition affecting the brain of Multiple Sclerosis patients. The condition is the result of inflammation around long axis of medular veins. This morphologic appearance is named after the Scottish pathologist James Walker Dawson, who first defined the condition in 1916.

Source: Wikipedia