NICE issues draft CCSVI guidance
Published date: 25 Aug 2011 at 10:14AM
NICE (National Institute for Healthcare and Clinical Excellence) have issueddraft guidance on chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI).
The…
Pathophysiology
Zamboni and colleagues claimed that in MS patients diagnosed with CCSVI, the azygos and IJV veins are stenotic in around 90% of the cases. Zamboni theorized that malformed blood vessels cause increased…
Treatment
Balloon dilatation of stenosed jugular vein in a MS patient. While pressure in the balloon is relatively low, stenosis prevents the balloon from inflating in the middle.
Balloon angioplasty and stenting have been proposed…
CCSVI was first found using specialized extracranial and transcranial doppler sonography.[1][16] Five ultrasound criteria of venous drainage have been proposed to be characteristic of the syndrome, although having two of…
what is this? here are details for our colleques who are not aware of it--- the comments given are ???
Chronic cerebro-spinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) is a term developed by Italian researcher Paolo Zamboni in 2008…
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what about scrotum,if the kid is boy then we have to evaluate scrotum to rule of cyptorchedism,otherwise these can be inguinal lymph nodes.what was the size and how was doppler.
My friend, please do not waist your time! CCSVI is a SCAM - there is no correlation with MS! Read Valderesco paper, Zivadinov and Baracchini new papers coming out soon with same finding : nothing in MS!!!!
. I think your Italian colleque ( Dr Z)…
At the moment we are waiting for general exam and this week i will perform elastography, is a youn patient so before to perform a FNAC we (togheter whit the pediatric team) want to be sure
Thanks a lot.
If it was enlarged Lymph Nodes - most possibility it was Lymphoma. So, for confirmation better to do FNAC. What is the biopsy result?
What is the importance of elastograpny as next step in this case? Biopsy result will be best for…