SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- There's a radical new theory developing on the cause of multiple sclerosis. MS has long been considered an auto-immune disorder, in which the body attacks itself.
But new research points to a vascular problem and early studies show it might be stopped or even reversed through surgery. It is generating excitement and words of caution from doctors who say the science doesn't yet back it up.
Sammy Jo Wilkinson was just turning 30 when her body went through a dramatic change. The diagnosis was multiple sclerosis, an incurable, often disabling disease that attacks the nervous system, and there's no known cause.
Now 15 years later, she sees herself similar to a stroke patient in recovery.
"I've had this uncontrolled micro-stroke going on all over my brain, iron deposits from the reflux of blood hitting the blockage and coming back into the brain and lack of oxygen in the brain, so this has been going on in my head for 15 years, leaving all kinds of scarring and damage," Sammy Jo said.
What Sammy Jo describes is a radical new theory developed by Doctor Paolo Zamboni of Italy. He's not a neurologist but a vascular surgeon. His research began when his wife was diagnosed with MS. He calls it CCSVI -- Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency.
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