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MS- CCSVI in Dublin

  • 22-05-2010 4:31am
    #1
    femur61
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,588 ✭✭✭


    They are scaning for CCSVI in a clinic in Blackrock now http://www.ultrasound.ie/ccsvi.html. Anyone had it done. I know there is no treatment here but wondering if anyone had a scan?


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  • #2
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    Yes several people I know have had ultrasound done there. Reports are good. No treatment yet.


  • #3
    ingalway
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 661 ✭✭✭ingalway


    There is a Facebook page run by a guy in Dublin with MS which you may find useful:
    http://www.facebook.com/pages/dreaMS/129633328646


  • #4
    Shtanto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 179 ✭✭Shtanto


    I'm going to see if they'll treat me for CCSVI up in the hermitage clinic. The blackrock clinic might work too. Folks go for risky plastic surgery all the time. This isn't nearly as bad. And the fact that it might help with the MS is incidental at this point. It's a good thing the neurologists are such a tight clique - they'll never hear about any of this. Hopefully I can get it off the ground.

    Do neurologists even check boards.ie? It'd be better not to get their hackles up. Charcot called MS a vascular condition when it was discovered so I'm going to see if the vhi will pay for it.


  • #5
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,077 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Well, I've had examinations by two of the top neurologists in Ireland, and both were clearly aware of the CCSVI claim well over a year ago. The issue is not one of awareness, it's one of medical caution. The use of stents as a treatment for MS is not proven, and there are good reasons to be cautious.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #6
    Shtanto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 179 ✭✭Shtanto


    I'm not a fan of stents. Primum non nocere is the Doctors' favourite. Besides, the stents used were for arteries, not veins. You need conical stents for veins and we're not there yet.

    Balloons are safer, no doubt about that. Many of the tools needed for the job aren't available yet


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