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Default Venous Insufficiency and Multiple Sclerosis:Too Soon to Tell

I just got this in my Neurology Watch newsletter. Not sure if it has already been discussed here.

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An unproven treatment is creating controversy.

The notion that chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) might underlie multiple sclerosis (MS) has taken the MS community by storm, as described in a recent news report in the New York Times. Unfortunately, this idea has generated enormous controversy, in large part because opportunists have taken advantage of the situation, performing interventional procedures (so-called "liberation" angioplasty) on MS patients for profit.
....to read more please go to
http://neurology.jwatch.org/cgi/cont...q=etoc_jwneuro
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