Dr. Zamboni who ha come up with a possible simple solution to MS
Italian Dr. Paolo Zamboni, whose wife has Multiple Sclerosis, said he stumbled upon a simple experimental surgery that could help people with the illness.
"I am confident that this could be a revolution for the research and diagnosis of multiple sclerosis," said Dr. Zamboni, who is the professor of medicine at the University of Ferrara in Italy, and has done the procedure on his wife, Elena, who was diagnosed with MS in 1995 at the age of 37.
The doctor said he was determined to find a cure for the illness that strikes people in the prime of their lives but whose causes are unknown and whose effective treatments are few. He looked at the disease in a different way, not as an autoimmune condition, but as a vascular disease.
Now, there is a great deal of interest in his research, and the CCSVI, or Chronic Cerebro-Spinal Venous Insufficiency, which means that he believes that MS is caused by an excessive build-up of iron in the brain, and by unblocking blood vessels to the brain it eliminates what triggers the disease.
Of the 63 patients, including his wife, who have relapsing-remitting MS, 73 percent have had no further symptoms two year after the surgery.
Symptom of MS include attacks of vertigo, numbness, temporary vision loss and chronic fatigue.
Researchers around the world are reacting to these new claims:
* In Canada, the MS Society is now looking for proposals that research funding on Zamboni's theory.
* The University of Buffalo is trying to replicate his work. Dr. Robert Zivadinov already launched plans to recruit 1,100 patients with MS and 600 other volunteers as controls who are either healthy or have neurological diseases other than MS. Using Doppler ultrasound, they will scan the patients to see if they can find any blockages within the veins of the neck and brain.
* In Europe, scientists are using the research to try to understand the overall causes of MS.
* To keep up with the latest on all of the research, sign up for Stuart Schlossman's "MS Views and News" at: www.msviewsandnews.org.
* Read the Lima Multiple Sclerosis Examiner story about CCSVI by Lori Friend
...you might like these articles about Dr. Zamboni's theory:
- What is the Chronic Cerebro-Spinal Venous Insufficiency?
- Dr. Zamboni's official site
- Italian Doctor Discovers Simple Cure for MS
- New Theory on Multiple Sclerosis Enters Testing
- Irregular Blood Flow and Iron Deposition in MS
- To keep up with the latest on all of the research, sign up for Stuart Schlossman's "MS Views and News." http://www.msviewsandnews.org
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From Dr. Zamboni's own words
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Hello all!
Saw Montel Williams on TV with Dr. Oz. He has swallowed 27 pills and had an injection each morning. It appears that Montel has secondary progressive. which of the A, B, C's works for secondary MS and what is in the the medication he takes each day.
many thanks
Debbie
Thank you Mike for getting this invaluable message out!!!! I know this is new research but it's imperative that the doctors in the U.S. get on board and start researching it even more. There are many in the MS community that are waiting for this treatment if it's as good as it sounds!!!!
Debbie
I have have had ms for 5yrs and I'm sorry to say that Montel completely misrepresented what really happens with ms. What is the most important thing right now is; The ms community is excited and overwhelmed with Dr. Zamboni's developments regarding ms treatment. We don't have time for uniformed comments when great things are developing.
The 27 pills he mentioned were nothing more than supplements/vitamins and he is not SPMS, he has RRMS and yes most of us are on "one" of the abcR ms drugs. Montel's melodrama was designed for his own financial gain. He by no means is a credible example of what really happens with ms.
Hope more people with a better understanding of our condition will comment regarding the possibility for a treatment as a result of the CCSVI findings.
Thank you Mayra
Please, contact the MS Society in the US and implore them to join the MS Society in Canada in funding this important and promising research! More studies need to be done and fast, but the MS Society in the States seems to be balking. They need to hear from those of us with MS and our loved ones demanding that they put some of the money (that we raise for them!) toward researching Dr. Zamboni's theory.
I've had MS for 15 yrs. It used to be RRMS without recovery in between attacks. I'm now SPMS. Just tried betaseron and the reaction has caused another attack. I told my doctor and have on many other occassions, it feels like my head and spine are being filled and a tight wire is cutting off the circulation of my head and limbs. For years now the response has always been, "hmmm, I've never heard of that." Well, I think CCSVI can probably explaine that! I pray that science moves quickly on this and allows us to choose this surgery as a therapy. Seems better than all the A,B,C poisions that have only made me worse!
Great information I will pass to others. Thanks for this article.
Hi mayra, you are exactly right about zambonies discovery, This thing sounds too good to be right but if it is which i really think it is, we dont have to suffer any more so i hope they keep it up with research because as we all know we are all going down the hill as each day passes by
I am 74 and ms is keeping me mostly in bed. I was diagnosed spms four years ago. ms was confirmed in Jan. 1984. I took Copaxone in 1995 for ten months. I quit taking it as I had the worst exaceration that I had ever had. That was Nov.1995 and I started using a wheelchair at that point. I could still walk ten feet and transfer on my own until five years ago.
I do not feel pain and it has to do with liesions in that part of my brain. I am very interested in any exploration. I do have a food processor that Montel advertises and it makes getting enough vegetables. I am feeling better and believe That I appear to have last a few pounds. I am almost 75 and have gained weight and am plagued by spactisity. I am very excited by th article. I have a young grand-daughter that my son says is very like me. I worry for her.
I have been around long enough to know that no two people can cope the same way and treating yourself well and frequent exersize and keeping cool and living well or the best that you can, does go a long way. I have lost cognition, which is the worst. Just, KEEP ON KEEPING ON.
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