Venous and cerebrospinal fluid flow in multiple sclerosis: a case‐control study

P Sundström, A Wåhlin, K Ambarki… - Annals of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The prevailing view on multiple sclerosis etiopathogenesis has been challenged by the
suggested new entity chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency. To test this hypothesis, we …

Venous drainage in multiple sclerosis: a combined MRI and ultrasound study

F Doepp, JT Würfel, CF Pfueller, JM Valdueza… - Neurology, 2011 - AAN Enterprises
Background: Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) was proposed as the
causal trigger for developing multiple sclerosis (MS). However, current data are …

Association between chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency and multiple sclerosis: a meta-analysis

A Laupacis, E Lillie, A Dueck, S Straus, L Perrier… - Cmaj, 2011 - Can Med Assoc
Background: It has been proposed by Zamboni and colleagues that multiple sclerosis is
caused by chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency, a term used to describe ultrasound …

No evidence of chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency at multiple sclerosis onset

C Baracchini, P Perini, M Calabrese… - Annals of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Objective An impaired cerebrospinal venous drainage, defined as chronic cerebrospinal
venous insufficiency (CCSVI), has been recently hypothesized to be the possible cause of …

No cerebrocervical venous congestion in patients with multiple sclerosis

F Doepp, F Paul, JM Valdueza, K Schmierer… - Annals of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Objective: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is characterized by demyelination centered around
cerebral veins. Recent studies suggested this topographic pattern may be caused by venous …

No association of abnormal cranial venous drainage with multiple sclerosis: a magnetic resonance venography and flow-quantification study

MP Wattjes, BW Van Oosten, WL De Graaf… - Journal of Neurology …, 2011 - jnnp.bmj.com
Background Recent studies using colour-coded Doppler sonography showed that chronic
impaired venous drainage from the central nervous system is almost exclusively found in …

Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency in patients with multiple sclerosis

P Zamboni, R Galeotti, E Menegatti… - Journal of Neurology …, 2009 - jnnp.bmj.com
Background: The extracranial venous outflow routes in clinically defined multiple sclerosis
(CDMS) have not previously been investigated. Methods: Sixty-five patients affected by …

Extracranial venous hemodynamics in multiple sclerosis: a case-control study

G Tsivgoulis, M Mantatzis, C Bogiatzi, K Vadikolias… - Neurology, 2011 - AAN Enterprises
Objectives: A chronic state of impaired cerebral and cervical venous drainage, termed
chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI), has recently been implicated in the …

Progressive multiple sclerosis is not associated with chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency

C Baracchini, P Perini, F Causin, M Calabrese… - Neurology, 2011 - AAN Enterprises
Objective: Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) had been suggested to play
a major pathogenetic role in multiple sclerosis (MS), but recent data on early stages of MS …

Use of MR venography for characterization of the extracranial venous system in patients with multiple sclerosis and healthy control subjects

R Zivadinov, A Lopez-Soriano, B Weinstock-Guttman… - Radiology, 2011 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To investigate the differences in the extracranial venous system in patients with
multiple sclerosis (MS) and healthy control (HC) subjects by using magnetic resonance (MR) …