Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  May I answer?

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  Okay. Very, very quickly, I want to underline that the gold standard in medicine to detect a stenosis or a narrowing in a vessel is gold standard angiography. I formally invite members of the committee to visit us, and I will be pleased to show you, in the computer system of our

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  Yes. I began this treatment in 2007. We had 50 relapsing-remitting patients who completed three years of follow-up. The result was that 75% of the relapsing-remitting patients did not have more relapses or more active lesions on the MRI and increased their quality of life. This w

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  We know this--

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  We know this very well.

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  I'm sorry. Probably I don't understand very well, but the idea of Dr. Magissano is perfect, because any time you have new--

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  In Italy, we are now carrying out a randomized control study with the following characteristics. It's blinded so that you may take away any doubt about the placebo effect, because the untreated arm will have the same surgery, and the treated arm conventional angioplasty. We also

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  Okay. We described the CCSVI treatment by means of standard balloon angioplasty in a paper published in the Journal of Vascular Surgery last December. According to our results, angioplasty was demonstrated to be safe. We never had major vascular complications and patients were d

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  I will repeat this: chronic fatigue is one of the more disabling symptoms in multiple sclerosis. Following balloon angioplasty, we found significant improvements in this symptom. This is particularly interesting, because until now there have not been effective treatments for chro

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  Good evening. Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency is a syndrome characterized by flow blockages of the internal jugular and azygous veins system, with insufficient drainage from the brain. This syndrome has been recently inserted in guidelines in a consensus conference an