Let me first off try to explain what CCSVI is it stands for Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency. CCSVI is a new procedure that researchers are investigating to see if it is possibly a helpful solution to some M.S. patients.
What happens with this is that they take a patient with Multiple Sclerosis and do imaging of their veins that are coming from the brain and if these veins are some how blocked or flowing the wrong way they will go in with a little device that goes up into the vein and expands using a small balloon that opens up the veins so that they will flow correctly.
As a result of opening the veins back up to the way they should be doctors are hoping that it will help give some relief to people with Multiple Sclerosis symptoms. So far there has been little success with the out come of the patients. There have been some relief of some symptoms in some patients but not all. This procedure is by no means a cure for Multiple Sclerosis but it might help doctors in finding a cure. For now at least if it does relieve some symptoms that would be better than nothing I guess.
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