Italian Doctor Finds MS Breakthrough

My wife has MS, I wanted to share this:


Italian Doctor Finds MS Breakthrough

MS MAY BE RELATED TO VASCULAR ISSUES

An Italian doctor has made a breakthrough in the treatment of Multiple Sclerosis with what he says is a fairly simple procedure that is closely related to the medical art of angioplasty.
The doctors' wife was diagnosed in early 1995 with MS after several years of severe issues related to the illness. She was suffering from vertigo, chronic fatigue and vision loss.
The doctor spent an immense amount of time researching the disease only to become convinced that he was not dealing with an auto-immune illness but a disease that seemed to be focused around one particular artery that leads in and out of the brain. As a result, the doctor performed a type of arterial widening which immediately releieved most of the symptoms of his partners' MS.
According to Dr. Paolo Zamboni, he says "I am confident that this could be a revolution for the research and diagnosis of multiple sclerosis.”

Since then, the doctor has performed this surgery on nearly 100 persons in his native Italy, with results that could easily be classed as nothing short of stellar. According to those results more than 73% of persons who have been treated have walked away with no symptoms remaing of MS in their systems.

This to me is worth investigating here in Canada and I would encourage all MS sufferers to seek further information from their family doctors on how they may be able to participate in the future study of MS that is taking place in Hamilton this year. You may contact Mark Haacke, an adjunct professor at McMaster University in Hamilton for further information.

Some MS Facts And Figures

•Women are more than three times as likely as men to develop MS.

•MS can cause loss of balance, heat sensitivity, impaired speech, extreme fatigue, double vision and paralysis. The disease is characterized by lesions on the brain, a result of the breakdown of myelin, the protective covering wrapped around the nerves of the central nervous system.
•The most common treatment for MS is corticosteroids. Steroids reduce inflammation at the site of new demyelination, lessening symptoms.
•MS was first identified and described by French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot in 1868.
•MS is widely believed to be an autoimmune disorder, but the cause or causes are unknown. There are a number of theories about what might trigger the disease, including exposure to a virus in childhood; exposure to tobacco smoke; lack of the female sex hormone prolactin, which plays a role in the development of myelin; and vitamin D deficiency. Vitamin D may play a role in MS because it helps to construct the interior layer of blood vessels.
•Despite the long-held assumption that MS is an autoimmune disorder, new research suggests it is actually a vascular disease triggered by a buildup of iron in the brain due to problems in blood flow.