“Liberation treatment” for chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency in multiple sclerosis: the truth will set you free

ConclusionCCSVI appears to be a poorly reproducible and clinically irrelevant sonographic construct. “Liberation treatment” has no proven efficacy, may exacerbate underlying disease activity and has been complicated with SAEs. “Liberation treatment” should stop being offered to MS patients even in the settings of RCTs. CCSVI appears to be a poorly reproducible and clinically irrelevant sonographic construct. “Liberation treatment” has no proven efficacy, may exacerbate underlying disease activity and has been complicated with SAEs. “Liberation treatment” should stop being offered to MS patients even in the settings of RCTs.

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Source: Brain and Behavior - September 1, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Georgios Tsivgoulis, Simon Faissner, Konstantinos Voumvourakis, Aristeidis H. Katsanos, Nikos Triantafyllou, Nikolaos Grigoriadis, Ralf Gold, Christos Krogias Tags: Review Source Type: research