Italian doctor claims to have a simple cure to Multiple Sclerosis

November 28, 8:19 PMMultiple Sclerosis ExaminerMike Szymanski

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Dr. Zamboni who ha come up with a possible simple solution to MS
(from Dr. Zamboni's official website)

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.

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From Dr. Zamboni's own words