CCSVI-I can't help but think that there actually my be something to this!

lady_express_44 · 11-22-2009, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by tkrik

In all that I have read so far, they talk about the blood brain barrier and stents to help unclog arteries/veins in the brain. But what about the spinal cord? I, like others on here, have t-spine lesions as well. Would Zamboni's theory hold true for spinal lesions? How would they stent the veins/arteries within the spinal cord?

I can't seem to find anything about CCSVI and spinal cord lesions.

Hi T,

This "story" actually goes back to the 70's, where a Dr Schelling made a discovery:

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The story began in 1973, at the University of Innsbruck, when F. Alfons Schelling, M.D. began investigations into the causes and consequences of the enormous individual differences in the widths of the venous outlets of the human skull. The results of this study appeared, in 1978, in the official organ of the German-speaking Anatomical Societies, the "Anatomischer Anzeiger".

F.A Schelling's 1981 discovery, at the Hospital for Nervous Diseases in Salzburg, of a striking widening of the main venous passageways through the skulls in victims of Multiple Sclerosis were to occupy the author's thoughts through the following decades of his quite diversified medical career. And in putting together, bit by bit, all the observations on the venous involvement in the emergence of the specific, and, in particular, cerebral lesions of multiple sclerosis, he was able to recognize their causes.

He has published an online "book" (where I got the above quote), that describes (on pg 88) how this "backjet" could affect the development of spinal cord lesions, but it is too complex for me to put in words (or even understand). If you read the entire book, he spends a great deal of time focusing on the spinal cord lesions discovered back in the mid-1800's (Charcot's time), and even rationalizes how viruses, autoimmune, etc. don't fit with the currently held theories about the disease process:

http://www.ms-info.net/ms_040504.pdf

He also has a great website where you can view how Dawson Fingers are formed:

http://www.ms-info.net/evo/msmanu/984.htm

I believe that this "backjet" influence the formation of our "multiple plaques" disease, absolutely, but still wonder what the underlying problem is that causes our veins to do this in the first place. As was explained in the W5 show, it seems as though twenty-some % had further vein complications after the angioplasty surgery ... so is something else causing this "mechanical failure", which results in multiple plaques in our CNS?

Anyway, it finally feel like they are on the right track to me ...

Cherie

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