Dr. Zamboni, a varicose vein surgeon at the University of Ferrara in Italy, suggests that vein blockages play a key role in MS, and abnormality in blood drainage from the brain and spinal cord, may contribute to nervous system damage in MS. By using advanced ultrasound technology, Dr. Zamboni and his team found abnormalities in 100% of the MS patients studied, and in none of the subjects without the condition. Dr. Zamboni had the idea to open the “blockages”, to “liberate” them, with a balloon-tipped catheter and insert a stent to keep them open in the same manner as is done in coronary angioplasty. A small non-blinded, non-randomized, non-controlled trial of what he calls the “liberation therapy” was performed on his wife and a group of patients who all claim immediate relief of symptoms like fatigue, “brain fog” and heat sensitivity. Dr. Zamboni has suggested MS is triggered by impaired venous drainage of the brain (specifically narrowing or blockage of the internal jugular veins) or spinal cord (via narrowing or blockage of the azygos vein), and the subsequent breakdown of the blood-brain barrier cause an accumulation of iron within the brain. He has coined the term "Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency" or CCSVI to describe this phenomenon.
 
I find it interesting Dr. Zamboni proposes that vein blockages play a key role in MS, and the late Dr. Swank from Portland, Oregon on the other hand had suggested the Swank low-fat diet for the treatment of MS for over 50-years. He had followed 150 people over 50 years on his diet. Dr. Swank believed that MS was not an autoimmune disease. He believed that MS patients did not digest fat well resulting in micro-clotting which is along the same theory of what Dr. Zamboni proposes.    
 
For more information on Dr. Zamboni’s and Dr. Swank’s treatments on MS, please go to: 
 
http://www.nationalmssociety.org/news/news-detail/index.aspx?nid=2206&gclid=CKupidG_66MCFdJL5Qod6DmA2Q
 
http://www.swankmsdiet.org/