1 Sep 2016Article
Venous compression syndrome of internal jugular veins prevalence in patients with multiple sclerosis and chronic cerebro-spinal venous insufficiency
Sandro Mandolesi 1Tarcisio Niglio 2Augusto Orsini 3Simone Sio 4Alessandro d’Alessandro 5Dimitri Mandolesi 5Francesco Fedele 1Aldo d’Alessandro 6
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1 Department Cardio-vascular and Respiratory Science, “Sapienza” University, Rome, Italy
2 Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
3 Department Vascular Surgery Gioia Hospital, Sora (FR), Italy
4 SAIMAL Dept. U.O. Occupational Medicine “Sapienza” University, Rome, Italy
5 Faculty of Medicine University of Foggia, Italy
6 Department of Medical Sciences, Oral and Biotecnology “G. d’Annunzio” University, Chieti, Italy; Department of Angiology “T. Masselli-Mascia” Hospital, San Severo (FG), Italy
Ann. Ital. Chir., 2016, 87(5), 406-410;
Published: 1 Sep 2016
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Abstract
OBJECTIVES: Analysis of the incidence of Venous Compression Syndrome (VCS) with full block of the flow of the internal jugular veins (IJVs) in patients with Multiple Sclerosis and Chronic cerebro-spinal venous insufficiency. METHODS: We included 769 patients with MS and CCSVI (299 males, 470 females) and 210 controls without ms and ccsvi (92 males, 118 females). each subject was investigated by echo-color-doppler (ecd). morphological and hemodynamic ecd data were recorded by a computerized mem-net maps of epidemiological national observatory on ccsvi and they were analyzed by mem-net clinical analysis programs. RESULTS: VCS of IJVs occurs in 240 subjects affected by CCSVI and MS (31% of total) and in 12 controls (6% of total). The differences between the two groups are statistical significant (X² = 36.64, p<0.0001). CONCLUSION: Up to day there are no longitudinal studies that allow us to identify the WC of jugular and/or vertebral veins as etiology of a chronic neurodegenerative disease, but we note that Venous Compression Syndrome of IJVs is strongly associated with MS and CCSVI.
Keywords
- Chronic Cerebro-Spinal Venous Insufficiency
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Venous Compression Syndrome
- Multiple SclerosisVenous Compression Syndrome