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Participate in MS Research. Quick links. What is MS? What effect does diet have on relapse rates in children? Ch Works at Medanta The Medicity. Raj Kumar has joined Medanta as Consultant - Neuro-anaesthesia with primary focus on peri-operative care of patients undergoing neurosurgery.
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Patient Reviews for Recommended doctors for you. Cost Calculator. Please Wait. Free Consultation Live Consult. Almost all neurologists - the specialists who treat MS - think the disease is a result of the patient's immune system attacking the protective coverings of nerves in the brain and spine: myelin sheaths. They have theories about why this happens but nobody knows for sure. Zamboni says the degeneration of myelin sheaths is actually the result of a blockage in the vein in the neck that drains blood from the brain.
Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency, or CCSVI, is said to cause the degeneration by slowing the rate at which blood flows through the brain. Ahead of his visit to Australia this week, Zamboni explained the process from his office in Ferrara, Italy. He says these blockages result in the brain's natural defence mechanisms being weakened, allowing damage and inflammation in the brain caused by various things, including toxins, bacteria and viruses.
He proposes MS patients with a blockage have a surgical procedure known as balloon angioplasty. A small deflated balloon is inserted into the groin, guided to the vein in the neck and inflated, stretching the tightened vein and allowing blood to flow more freely. Often this procedure has to be repeated every couple of months as the blockage reappears. Initial studies conducted by Zamboni seemed promising but independent teams have had difficulty replicating the early findings.
Strangely, while there is almost unanimous support for the theory among Zamboni's colleagues of vascular specialists, there is near-unanimous scepticism among neurologists, who mostly think the theory is not just wrong but completely implausible.
Speaking off the record, several neurologists said the whole idea was ''silly'', with one going as far as to say it was ''completely ridiculous''. Those who speak on the record are careful in their criticisms but express universal concern over the ethics of conducting serious surgery on the basis of an unproven theory.
But the surgery continues. And so it should, says Zamboni, who is pleased that patients around the world, including in Australia, are able to bypass their sceptical neurologists to get the treatment.
Great strides have been made in MS research over the past few years but a lot remains tragically out of reach. New and increasingly effective drugs that protect the brain against the patient's immune response have resulted in a dramatic reduction in symptoms and transformed the lives of many people with MS.
But there are no drugs that can cure the condition. The newer more effective drugs can be hit and miss with strong side-effects, while others are not completely safe. It is widely believed among experts that MS is dramatically more common the further you get from the equator, with people in Tasmania six times more likely to have the disease than people in Queensland.
Research has suggested this is explained by links with vitamin D and sunlight but even this latitudinal distribution has recently been questioned see box.
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