Paolo Zamboni
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| Born | 25 March 1957 Ferrara, Italy |
| Citizenship | Italy |
| Fields | Vascular surgery |
| Institutions | Ferrara, Italy |
| Notable awards | ISNVD Gold Medal |
Paolo Zamboni (born 25 March 1957, Ferrara, Italy) is an Italian doctor who claims to have found in an unblinded preliminary study that in over 90% of the participants with multiple sclerosis there were problems in veins draining their brain, like stenosis or defective valves.[1] He also noticed high level of accumulation of iron deposits in the brain, supposedly due to restricted outflow of blood.[2]
According to Zamboni some symptoms of multiple sclerosis in his own wife as well as 73% of his patients abated after an endovascular procedure to open these veins.[3][4][5]
Zamboni named this condition chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI).[6]
The theory is controversial. The National Multiple Sclerosis Society has said that, while "there is not yet enough evidence to conclude that obstruction of veins causes MS," that "[Zamboni's] hypothesis on CCSVI and its corrective treatment is a path that must be more fully explored and one that we are supporting with research funding."[7] Since 2010, there has been more research that disputes the Zamboni theory.[8][9]
According to a recent research carried out at the Cardiovascular Diseases Section, Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation (DETO), University of Bari (Italy), venous echo-color-Doppler (ECD) showed that chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) syndrome is related to multiple sclerosis (MS).[10]
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- ↑ Traboulsee, Anthony L., et al. (2013, October 9). Prevalence of extracranial venous narrowing on catheter venography in people with multiple sclerosis, their siblings, and unrelated healthy controls: a blinded, case-control study. The Lancet
- ↑ Ciccone M.M., et al. Multigate quality Doppler profiles and morphological/hemodynamic alterations in multiple sclerosis patients. Curr. Neurovasc. Res.. 2012 May;9(2):120-7.
External links
- Multiple Sclerosis Treatment and the CCSVI Scam[dead link]
- Brief CV Paolo Zamboni, MD on Hilarescere Foundation[dead link]
- Paolo Zamboni research profile on BiomedExperts
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