) is an Italian doctor and vascular surgeon

Surgeon

In medicine, a surgeon is a specialist in surgery. Surgery is a broad category of invasive medical treatment that involves the cutting of a body, whether human or animal, for a specific reason such as the removal of diseased tissue or to repair a tear or breakage...

 who found in a preliminary study that in over 90% of the participants afflicted with Multiple sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis is an inflammatory disease in which the fatty myelin sheaths around the axons of the brain and spinal cord are damaged, leading to demyelination and scarring as well as a broad spectrum of signs and symptoms...

 there were several problems in veins draining their brain

Human brain

The human brain has the same general structure as the brains of other mammals, but is over three times larger than the brain of a typical mammal with an equivalent body size. Estimates for the number of neurons in the human brain range from 80 to 120 billion...

, like stenosis

Stenosis

A stenosis is an abnormal narrowing in a blood vessel or other tubular organ or structure.It is also sometimes called a stricture ....

 or defective valves. He noticed high level of accumulation of iron deposits in the brain, due to restricted outflow of blood.
According to Zamboni some symptoms of multiple sclerosis in his own wife as well as 73% of his patients abated after an endovascular

Endovascular surgery

Endovascular surgery is a form of minimally invasive surgery that was designed to access many regions of the body via major blood vessels.Endovascular techniques were originally designed for diagnostic purposes. Basic techniques involve the introduction of a catheter percutaneously into a large...

 procedure to open these veins.

Zamboni named this condition Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency

Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency

Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency is a term developed by Italian researcher Paolo Zamboni in 2008 to describe compromised flow of blood in the veins draining the central nervous system...

 (CCSVI).

The theory is controversial, but the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada

Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada

Founded in 1948, the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada promotes multiple sclerosis research and provides education and services to people with MS and their families and caregivers...

 accepted Zamboni's treatment as promising. A University of Buffalo research team is also developing a program to test Zamboni's theory.

External links

• Brief CV Paolo Zamboni, MD on Hilarescere Foundation
• Paolo Zamboni research profile on BiomedExperts
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