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"Re: Is Dr. Sclafani still around?
Post by NHE » Wed Jun 05, 2019 2:16 am
I have confirmed with Dr. Sclafani that he is working with a clinic in Poland.
https://ccsvi-clinic.com/en
On Tue, May 21, 2019 11:52 am "salvatore JA sclafani MD" <***.***@gmail.com>
>> On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 6:10 AM "salvatore JA sclafani MD" <***.***@gmail.com>
>>> On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 11:06 PM NHE <***@***.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Dr. Sclafani,
>>> Is this CCSVI site legitimate? It says that you and Dr. Schelling are
>>> their consulting doctors. https://ccsvi-clinic.com/en Their site is
>>> full of generic images from Shutterstock.
>>
>> yes, i am doing procedures with them tomorrow in poznan. Im awaiting
>> a delayed flight in warsaw. I will go from there to the isnvd meeting in
>> ferrara next week
>> DrS
this initiative is just starting up. it is nice to collaborate with an interventional neurologist for a change
My Comment. Their work appears to be thorough and up to date. Quoted from their site under "Why to Choose our Clinic."
"We approach the issue of venous circulation as a whole, because we know that due to its complexty, a fragmentary look limited only to the jugular veins or the azygos vein system is insufficient.
We check for abnormalities in blood flow that also occur in the venous sinuses of the skull with their main sources of supply, in the superior and inferior caval vein and in the main venous outflows from the spinal canal.
We illustrate the entire vascular system of the patient using 3-tesla magnetic resonance with a very high resolution applying a specially developed protocol of Dr. Schelling, which is an extension of the protocol of Prof. Haacke."
More information is available on their site.
2. Me again. Second bit of Good News for my site. I was vexed to see MSCureEnigmas bounced off the Google search engine pages for « MSCure ». However, when consulting the page MSCureEnigmas.net my site continues to enjoy the support of a Google « Guardian » who reads my posts with care, highlighting and summarizing pertinent ideas. For instance, under MS Blog the following quote « I object to this witch hunt against early practitioners of CCSVI for… »
Also, my « Guardian » is reminding me of my better papers, listing pages which will be very useful in re-writing my opening paper/eventual book. Thank you « Google ». (See below re-post).
MS AND CCSVI : THE SCIENCE
First published June 14, 2015 on MSCureEnigmas.net Blog
Carl Jung’s “synchronicity” has come to my rescue again. Just when I needed an answer to my “heart” problem, Italian researchers confirmed my own analysis of my heart “event”. Early January 2015 I rose abruptly, even violently, from lying quietly in bed. Briefly, I had difficulty breathing. Three strangled breaths followed before my respiration returned to normal. I surmised that what I believe to be compromised blood vessels had briefly collapsed. Once the blood flow resumed, the crisis ended. However, I couldn’t exclude a heart problem so mid February I made an appointment with a Cardiologist. Mid March the Cardiologist performed an EKG and another test to conclude that the heart was normal, but there was a problem with the aorta and she recommended a “Scintigraphic myocardique”.
I’ve put off getting the exam until the autumn (if not indefinitely). The Cardiologist ignored me when I suggested that the problem was one of blood flow through the brain as suggested by the CCSVI theory of MS. I don’t want someone to begin working on one aspect of my blood circulatory system while ignoring the CCSVI issue. (Of course it has been only six plus years since Professor Zamboni published his CCSVI paper on the Internet so general medical ignorance of a theory which has met ferocious opposition might be expected. That doesn’t mean one should ignore the concerns of an informed patient.)
Back to “Synchronicity”. Just when I requested a referral to a Cardiologist, PLOS ONE published the following paper on Feb 13, 2015.
Cerebral Circulation Time is Prolonged and Not Correlated with EDSS in Multiple Sclerosis Patients: A Study Using Digital Subtracted Angiography
http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchObject.action?uri=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0116681&representation=PDF
I recently read the article on Joan Beal’s excellent Blog titled “Multiple Sclerosis – The Vascular Connection” http://ccsviinms..com/2015/05/b ... tters.html. (She participates regularly as "cheerleader" on the site Thisisms.com.) Her blog is the indispensable resource for current scientific research on the brain and central nervous system which ventures away from the auto-immune ideology of MS. (Her interest in MS? Her explanation I quote here.)
“I became interested in multiple sclerosis (MS) research when my husband Jeff was diagnosed with MS in 2007. I noted a connection of Jeff's disease process to his circulation and blood, and by accessing medical journals on the internet and stacks of books at my local library, I put together research to address this. I sent my theory and research, called the Endothelial Health Program, to universities, and began a correspondence with vascular specialists at Stanford University. Jeff was the first American treated for CCSVI, and he is now six years past his venoplasty, with no further MS progression, healing of his gray matter, and relief of many symptoms.”
Excerpts from her February 23, 2015 blog post follow:
« Cerebral Circulation---2x slower in people with MS A brand new blinded study has found that it takes almost twice as long for blood to flow from the heart, through the brain, and back to the heart in people with MS, when compared to normals.
Cerebral circulation time (CCT) in people with MS was not tied to disability, or length of time with an MS diagnosis. Slowed CCT was found in all people with MS, when compared to age matched controls.
Forty four control subjects showed a median time of 2.8 seconds for cerebral circulation. The 80 patients with MS had a median time of 4.8 seconds…
Cerebral hypoperfusion, or slowed blood flow, has been noted in multiple sclerosis for decades. Many have theorized that this slowed blood flow is a result of damage to the MS brain. That inflammation, lesions, edema and loss of neurons would lead to less perfusion. But this has only been a theory.
What is revolutionary about this new, blinded study--is the evidence that cerebral hypoperfusion occurs in the earliest stages of MS, and precedes white matter lesions and neurodegeneration. This slowed blood flow appears to be the very first step in the MS disease process. Hypoperfusion is not a result of MS, it may be the cause… that this is a specific marker for MS…
This is the second peer-reviewed, published and blinded study to show cerebral circulation time is markedly slower in pwMS when compared to normals. The first study was published in 2012, and utilized doppler ultrasound, rather than angiography.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22357894...
The brain needs a constant supply of oxygen and glucose, and when blood flow is disrupted, damage occurs. Researchers have seen hypoperfusion and ischemic injury in MS for many years.
Dr. Zamboni and Dr. Zivadinov published a study in 2010 showing how severity of CCSVI was linked to severity of hypoperfusion:
To the best of our knowledge, this pilot study is the first to report a significant relationship between the presence and severity of CCSVI and hypoperfusion in the brain parenchyma…
Neurological researchers can no longer claim that cerebral blood flow is not important. New technologies are allowing us to see how hypoperfusion and slowed cerebral circulation time is impacting the brain….
There is a very real and measurable vascular connection to MS and diseases of neurodegeneration.
And new research is showing us how important the heart-brain connection is.” End of Quote
Back to the present. So what does this mean for me, the “Heart-Brain connection”? I believe that on a morning in January 2015 I rose so abruptly that the blood in my head was delayed in descending to the heart which left me gasping for breathe. Maybe this interruption in blood flow actually did injure the aorta. In future I will take great care to rise slowly and not repeat the experience. And I will continue my efforts to strengthen the endothelium of the veins AND arteries through nutrition, supplements, exercise, UV rays and fluid circulation therapies such as Osteopathy and Acupuncture. As it turns out advice for a healthy cardio-vascular system is the same as for a healthy brain and treating MS.
In March 2011 the International Society for NeuroVascular Disease (ISNVD) was founded at a meeting in Bologna Italy. The Fifth annual ISNVD conference was held in Naples the month of March 2015. In her March blog post Joan Beal provides brief synopses of the research abstracts. Her titles follow here.
http://isnvd.org/d/sites/default/files/Invited%20Speaker%20abstracts%20-%20all.pdf
“2D and 3D analysis of vessels in the retina and the brain
Venous dysfunction and neurodegenerative diseases
Blood storage within the intracranial space and its impact on cerebrospinal fluid dynamics
Advances in Treatment Strategies of Extracranial Venous Disease
Imaging of Brain Microvascular Disorders: lessons from the CADASIL model.
.Endothelin- 1 as a potential target for chronic brain hypoperfusion
TBI and hemodynamic changes in the brain
Ultrasound contrast imaging of brain hemodynamic and perfusion Marcello Mancini, M.D.
Imaging of the Microvasculature
Update in computational fluid modelling of the brain
Clinical Applications of Venous Treatment
The Heart Brain Connection
A novel sonographic method for reproducible jugular vein pulse wave assessment
Is there a role for mast cells dependent synthesis of Endothelin-1 in neurodegenerative diseases?
Venous abnormalities in Meniere's Disease
Advances in Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension Pathogensis: a Focus on Sinus Venous Stenosis
In Endothelial function, the glymphatic system and New Drug Development
Endothelial dysfunction in neurodegenerative disease
Fluid Dynamic Influences on Cerebrovascular Endothelial Activation Responses
Cardiovascular risk factors and neurodegenerative disorders” End of quote
Me again: While not the first to suggest the vascular connection to MS, Professor Zamboni was perhaps the first allopathic Doctor to suggest a treatment – using Angioplasty (Venoplasty) to free blood circulation by ballooning the stenosed veins. Unfortunately there is a tendency for the Allopaths to want to monopolize treatment which leaves the MSer somewhat emptyhanded if she doesn’t want (or can’t) undergo Venoplasty. One can do a lot more than eat better, stop smoking and exercise.
If we want to get the central nervous system fluids circulating (blood, cerebrospinal, and now glymphatic) we can get treated by an Osteopath, Acupuncturist, Ayurvedic Massage therapist, (Massage in general), and/or Chiropractor. We can treat ourselves with TENS Acupressure. That is where MS Cure Enigmas comes in, figuring out what we need to do to heal. I’m still reflecting on how I can revise my site. I may reduce MS categories to TWO basic types: 1) Venous abnormalities and 2) Skeletal obstructions. Skeletal obstructions require an entirely different treatment protocol than stenosed or defective veins (and I actually believe these define Progressive MS).
Major factors leading to my MS. 1) food sensitivities led to childhood malnutrition 2) Mononucleosis age 9 (EBV virus) damaged the endothelium (vein walls) 3) lack of UV rays (Vit D and Nitric Oxide release) 4) both parents smoked 5) stressful family environment 6) birth control pills 2 years (minor influence). All of these factors could have damaged the endothelium and retarded proper development of the vascular system. On the plus side, lot’s of exercise.
Tags: Multiple Sclerosis, MS, CCSVI, cerebral hypoperfusion, heart-brain connection, endothelium, cardiovascular system, ISNVD
- Dr. Sclafani is practicing Venoplasty treatment for CCSVI-MS again. Where ? POLAND All the Big Pharma monopoly crowd has managed to do is drive an accomplished, innovative, caring physician out of the USA. Dr. Schelling has joined him. I don’t know the details. NHE has posted the news on ThisisMS.com as follows :
"Re: Is Dr. Sclafani still around?
Post by NHE » Wed Jun 05, 2019 2:16 am
I have confirmed with Dr. Sclafani that he is working with a clinic in Poland.
https://ccsvi-clinic.com/en
On Tue, May 21, 2019 11:52 am "salvatore JA sclafani MD" <***.***@gmail.com>
>> On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 6:10 AM "salvatore JA sclafani MD" <***.***@gmail.com>
>>> On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 11:06 PM NHE <***@***.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Dr. Sclafani,
>>> Is this CCSVI site legitimate? It says that you and Dr. Schelling are
>>> their consulting doctors. https://ccsvi-clinic.com/en Their site is
>>> full of generic images from Shutterstock.
>>
>> yes, i am doing procedures with them tomorrow in poznan. Im awaiting
>> a delayed flight in warsaw. I will go from there to the isnvd meeting in
>> ferrara next week
>> DrS
this initiative is just starting up. it is nice to collaborate with an interventional neurologist for a change
My Comment. Their work appears to be thorough and up to date. Quoted from their site under "Why to Choose our Clinic."
"We approach the issue of venous circulation as a whole, because we know that due to its complexty, a fragmentary look limited only to the jugular veins or the azygos vein system is insufficient.
We check for abnormalities in blood flow that also occur in the venous sinuses of the skull with their main sources of supply, in the superior and inferior caval vein and in the main venous outflows from the spinal canal.
We illustrate the entire vascular system of the patient using 3-tesla magnetic resonance with a very high resolution applying a specially developed protocol of Dr. Schelling, which is an extension of the protocol of Prof. Haacke."
More information is available on their site.
2. Me again. Second bit of Good News for my site. I was vexed to see MSCureEnigmas bounced off the Google search engine pages for « MSCure ». However, when consulting the page MSCureEnigmas.net my site continues to enjoy the support of a Google « Guardian » who reads my posts with care, highlighting and summarizing pertinent ideas. For instance, under MS Blog the following quote « I object to this witch hunt against early practitioners of CCSVI for… »
Also, my « Guardian » is reminding me of my better papers, listing pages which will be very useful in re-writing my opening paper/eventual book. Thank you « Google ». (See below re-post).
MS AND CCSVI : THE SCIENCE
First published June 14, 2015 on MSCureEnigmas.net Blog
Carl Jung’s “synchronicity” has come to my rescue again. Just when I needed an answer to my “heart” problem, Italian researchers confirmed my own analysis of my heart “event”. Early January 2015 I rose abruptly, even violently, from lying quietly in bed. Briefly, I had difficulty breathing. Three strangled breaths followed before my respiration returned to normal. I surmised that what I believe to be compromised blood vessels had briefly collapsed. Once the blood flow resumed, the crisis ended. However, I couldn’t exclude a heart problem so mid February I made an appointment with a Cardiologist. Mid March the Cardiologist performed an EKG and another test to conclude that the heart was normal, but there was a problem with the aorta and she recommended a “Scintigraphic myocardique”.
I’ve put off getting the exam until the autumn (if not indefinitely). The Cardiologist ignored me when I suggested that the problem was one of blood flow through the brain as suggested by the CCSVI theory of MS. I don’t want someone to begin working on one aspect of my blood circulatory system while ignoring the CCSVI issue. (Of course it has been only six plus years since Professor Zamboni published his CCSVI paper on the Internet so general medical ignorance of a theory which has met ferocious opposition might be expected. That doesn’t mean one should ignore the concerns of an informed patient.)
Back to “Synchronicity”. Just when I requested a referral to a Cardiologist, PLOS ONE published the following paper on Feb 13, 2015.
Cerebral Circulation Time is Prolonged and Not Correlated with EDSS in Multiple Sclerosis Patients: A Study Using Digital Subtracted Angiography
http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchObject.action?uri=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0116681&representation=PDF
I recently read the article on Joan Beal’s excellent Blog titled “Multiple Sclerosis – The Vascular Connection” http://ccsviinms..com/2015/05/b ... tters.html. (She participates regularly as "cheerleader" on the site Thisisms.com.) Her blog is the indispensable resource for current scientific research on the brain and central nervous system which ventures away from the auto-immune ideology of MS. (Her interest in MS? Her explanation I quote here.)
“I became interested in multiple sclerosis (MS) research when my husband Jeff was diagnosed with MS in 2007. I noted a connection of Jeff's disease process to his circulation and blood, and by accessing medical journals on the internet and stacks of books at my local library, I put together research to address this. I sent my theory and research, called the Endothelial Health Program, to universities, and began a correspondence with vascular specialists at Stanford University. Jeff was the first American treated for CCSVI, and he is now six years past his venoplasty, with no further MS progression, healing of his gray matter, and relief of many symptoms.”
Excerpts from her February 23, 2015 blog post follow:
« Cerebral Circulation---2x slower in people with MS A brand new blinded study has found that it takes almost twice as long for blood to flow from the heart, through the brain, and back to the heart in people with MS, when compared to normals.
Cerebral circulation time (CCT) in people with MS was not tied to disability, or length of time with an MS diagnosis. Slowed CCT was found in all people with MS, when compared to age matched controls.
Forty four control subjects showed a median time of 2.8 seconds for cerebral circulation. The 80 patients with MS had a median time of 4.8 seconds…
Cerebral hypoperfusion, or slowed blood flow, has been noted in multiple sclerosis for decades. Many have theorized that this slowed blood flow is a result of damage to the MS brain. That inflammation, lesions, edema and loss of neurons would lead to less perfusion. But this has only been a theory.
What is revolutionary about this new, blinded study--is the evidence that cerebral hypoperfusion occurs in the earliest stages of MS, and precedes white matter lesions and neurodegeneration. This slowed blood flow appears to be the very first step in the MS disease process. Hypoperfusion is not a result of MS, it may be the cause… that this is a specific marker for MS…
This is the second peer-reviewed, published and blinded study to show cerebral circulation time is markedly slower in pwMS when compared to normals. The first study was published in 2012, and utilized doppler ultrasound, rather than angiography.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22357894...
The brain needs a constant supply of oxygen and glucose, and when blood flow is disrupted, damage occurs. Researchers have seen hypoperfusion and ischemic injury in MS for many years.
Dr. Zamboni and Dr. Zivadinov published a study in 2010 showing how severity of CCSVI was linked to severity of hypoperfusion:
To the best of our knowledge, this pilot study is the first to report a significant relationship between the presence and severity of CCSVI and hypoperfusion in the brain parenchyma…
Neurological researchers can no longer claim that cerebral blood flow is not important. New technologies are allowing us to see how hypoperfusion and slowed cerebral circulation time is impacting the brain….
There is a very real and measurable vascular connection to MS and diseases of neurodegeneration.
And new research is showing us how important the heart-brain connection is.” End of Quote
Back to the present. So what does this mean for me, the “Heart-Brain connection”? I believe that on a morning in January 2015 I rose so abruptly that the blood in my head was delayed in descending to the heart which left me gasping for breathe. Maybe this interruption in blood flow actually did injure the aorta. In future I will take great care to rise slowly and not repeat the experience. And I will continue my efforts to strengthen the endothelium of the veins AND arteries through nutrition, supplements, exercise, UV rays and fluid circulation therapies such as Osteopathy and Acupuncture. As it turns out advice for a healthy cardio-vascular system is the same as for a healthy brain and treating MS.
In March 2011 the International Society for NeuroVascular Disease (ISNVD) was founded at a meeting in Bologna Italy. The Fifth annual ISNVD conference was held in Naples the month of March 2015. In her March blog post Joan Beal provides brief synopses of the research abstracts. Her titles follow here.
http://isnvd.org/d/sites/default/files/Invited%20Speaker%20abstracts%20-%20all.pdf
“2D and 3D analysis of vessels in the retina and the brain
Venous dysfunction and neurodegenerative diseases
Blood storage within the intracranial space and its impact on cerebrospinal fluid dynamics
Advances in Treatment Strategies of Extracranial Venous Disease
Imaging of Brain Microvascular Disorders: lessons from the CADASIL model.
.Endothelin- 1 as a potential target for chronic brain hypoperfusion
TBI and hemodynamic changes in the brain
Ultrasound contrast imaging of brain hemodynamic and perfusion Marcello Mancini, M.D.
Imaging of the Microvasculature
Update in computational fluid modelling of the brain
Clinical Applications of Venous Treatment
The Heart Brain Connection
A novel sonographic method for reproducible jugular vein pulse wave assessment
Is there a role for mast cells dependent synthesis of Endothelin-1 in neurodegenerative diseases?
Venous abnormalities in Meniere's Disease
Advances in Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension Pathogensis: a Focus on Sinus Venous Stenosis
In Endothelial function, the glymphatic system and New Drug Development
Endothelial dysfunction in neurodegenerative disease
Fluid Dynamic Influences on Cerebrovascular Endothelial Activation Responses
Cardiovascular risk factors and neurodegenerative disorders” End of quote
Me again: While not the first to suggest the vascular connection to MS, Professor Zamboni was perhaps the first allopathic Doctor to suggest a treatment – using Angioplasty (Venoplasty) to free blood circulation by ballooning the stenosed veins. Unfortunately there is a tendency for the Allopaths to want to monopolize treatment which leaves the MSer somewhat emptyhanded if she doesn’t want (or can’t) undergo Venoplasty. One can do a lot more than eat better, stop smoking and exercise.
If we want to get the central nervous system fluids circulating (blood, cerebrospinal, and now glymphatic) we can get treated by an Osteopath, Acupuncturist, Ayurvedic Massage therapist, (Massage in general), and/or Chiropractor. We can treat ourselves with TENS Acupressure. That is where MS Cure Enigmas comes in, figuring out what we need to do to heal. I’m still reflecting on how I can revise my site. I may reduce MS categories to TWO basic types: 1) Venous abnormalities and 2) Skeletal obstructions. Skeletal obstructions require an entirely different treatment protocol than stenosed or defective veins (and I actually believe these define Progressive MS).
Major factors leading to my MS. 1) food sensitivities led to childhood malnutrition 2) Mononucleosis age 9 (EBV virus) damaged the endothelium (vein walls) 3) lack of UV rays (Vit D and Nitric Oxide release) 4) both parents smoked 5) stressful family environment 6) birth control pills 2 years (minor influence). All of these factors could have damaged the endothelium and retarded proper development of the vascular system. On the plus side, lot’s of exercise.
Tags: Multiple Sclerosis, MS, CCSVI, cerebral hypoperfusion, heart-brain connection, endothelium, cardiovascular system, ISNVD
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