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Venous Diseases
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Use of 'liberation therapy' may make MS worse
SAN DIEGO – Percutaneous transluminal venous angioplasty – also known as "liberation therapy" – doesn’t help people with multiple sclerosis and may increase MS brain activity in the short term, according to a small, randomized, sham-controlled trial from the State University of New York... »
CCSVI Controversy: A Call for New Research
Multiple sclerosis patients and endovascular interventionalists were elated when Italian researchers reported in 2009 that they had found evidence of chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency in nearly every MS patient they had studied and that in many cases, balloon angioplasty and sometimes... » SAN DIEGO - Patients with chronic venous disease who were treated surgically were significantly more likely to experience relief of symptoms than were those who underwent conservative therapy, results from a single-center study showed.“The interventional treatment of varicose veins is considered to... » SAN DIEGO - At 5 years of follow-up, patients who had ultrasound-guided foam sclerotherapy combined with saphenofemoral ligation had equally good clinical results compared with patients who underwent surgical treatment of varicose veins, based on a randomized controlled trial."Since surgery... »
Venous Surgery Compared To 'Conservative' Therapy
Foam Sclerotherapy: As Effective as Surgery?
Multiple sclerosis patients and endovascular interventionalists were elated when Italian researchers reported in 2009 that they had found evidence of chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency in nearly every MS patient they... »
Foam Sclerotherapy: As Effective as Surgery?
SAN DIEGO - At 5 years of follow-up, patients who had ultrasound-guided foam sclerotherapy combined with saphenofemoral ligation had equally good clinical results compared with patients who underwent surgical treatment of... »
Venous Surgery Compared To 'Conservative' Therapy
SAN DIEGO - Patients with chronic venous disease who were treated surgically were significantly more likely to experience relief of symptoms than were those who underwent conservative therapy, results from a single-center... »
| May 29 - Jun 1 Istanbul, | European Society for Surgical Research (ESSR): 48th Annual Congress |
| May 30 - Jun 2 San Francisco, CA | Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS): Vascular Annual Meeting 2013 |
| Jun 11 - 14 New York, NY | Mt. Sinai Hospital: Complex Coronary and Vascular Cases |
| Jun 19 - 22 Vienna, | European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES): International Congress |
| Jun 26 - 29 Heidelberg, | Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS): International Congress and Exhibition |