abstract:Paolo Zamboni (born 25 March 1957, Ferrara, Italy) is an Italian doctor and vascular surgeon who found in a preliminary study that in over 90% of the participants afflicted with multiple sclerosis there were several problems in veins draining their brain, like stenosis or defective valves. He noticed high level of accumulation of iron deposits in the brain, due to restricted outflow of blood.
When vascularsurgeonPaoloZambonireported in December 2009 that inflating atinyballoon inside twisted veinsinthe neck provided relief frommultiplesclerosis, hecreated quite a stir.