Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency is not more prevalent in patients with mild multiple sclerosis: A sonographer-blinded, case-control ultrasound study

Multiple Sclerosis Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 749-756

  Chambers, Brian ^a,b,c   Chambers, Jayne ^a   Cameron, Heather ^a   MacDonell, Richard ^a,b,c  

^a AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

^b FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Causality; chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency; clinically isolated syndrome; jugular vein stenosis; multiple sclerosis; Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis; ultrasound; Zamboni criteria

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; B SCAN; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHRONIC CEREBROSPINAL VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SITTING; SUPINE POSITION; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; ADULT; AUSTRALIA; BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN VEIN; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; DISABILITY; ECHOGRAPHY; JUGULAR VEIN; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, RELAPSING-REMITTING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL CORD; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION; VASCULARIZATION; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL VEINS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUGULAR VEINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, RELAPSING-REMITTING; PATIENT POSITIONING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL CORD; SUPINE POSITION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 84877620570     PISSN: 13524585     EISSN: 14770970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1352458512459986     Document Type: Article

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