Varicose vein surgery is one of the commonest surgeries performed in the Western world. Utilisation of a plastic stripper and olive or a perforation/inversion metallic stripper has been used to remove the great saphenous vein in the thigh. We describe a non-traumatic technique for removal of the great saphenous vein that has minimal complications.

BACKGROUND Endovenous laser ablation is one of the most accepted treatment options for insufficient great and small saphenous veins. The aim of this study was to investigate the long-term efficacy and safety of the radial fiber (ELVeS-radial kit™) for the 1470 nm diode laser in a 1-year follow-up. METHODS A total of 308 lower limbs with primary insufficiency of great and small saphenous veins...

BC Superficial vein thrombosis (SVT) is the preferred term to indicate thrombosis of any segment of the superficial vein system. SVT encompasses some older terms, such as superficial phlebitis (also called superficial thrombo­ phlebitis); suppurative thrombophlebitis (also called septic thrombophlebitis); and superficial femoral vein thrombosis (a misnomer). SVT also encompasses many current te...

OBJECTIVES To establish the status of the deep veins in patients presenting with recurrent varicose veins and the effect on treatment decisions. DESIGN Retrospective clinical series. MATERIALS AND METHODS Duplex examination of 570 consecutive patients (843 limbs) presenting with recurrent varicose veins (CEAP C2-4). RESULTS Approximately one third of these patients (34.8%:294 limbs) had n...

PURPOSE We aimed to investigate the feasibility and safety of the endovenous ambulatory selective varicose vein ablation under local anesthesia (eASVAL) method in a selected group of pa-tients with varicose disease and present the short-term results of one-year ultrasonographic follow-up. METHODS Three hundred and ninety-five consecutive patients with varicose veins who had been treated with ...

A patient-specific finite-element (FE) model of the human leg is developed to model the stress distribution in and around a vein wall in order to determine the biomechanical response of varicose veins to compression treatment. The aim is to investigate the relationship between the local pressure on the soft tissues induced by wearing the compression garment and the development and evolution of ...

The mechanisms giving rise to vein tortuosity, which is often associated with varicosis, are poorly understood. Recent works suggest that significant biological changes in the wall of varicose veins may precede the mechanical aspects of the disease. To test the hypothesis of tortuosity being a consequence of these changes, a Finite Element model was developed based on previous experimental work...

In order to study the structural changes in the intimal layer of varicose veins, we prospectively collected a total of 23 vein specimens from both the normal proximal thigh long saphenous (LSV) in 3 young trauma patients and from the unstripped proximal LSV near the sapheno-femoral junction and the distal calf blowouts in 10 primary varicose veins patients. Paraffin sections stained with hemato...

The Parkes Weber syndrome is a congenital vascular malformation, characterized by varicose veins, arterio-venous fistulas and overgrown limbs. No broadly accepted animal model of Parkes Weber syndrome has been described. We created side-to-side arterio-venous fistula between common femoral vessels with proximal non-absorbable ligature on common femoral vein limiting the enlargement of the vein ...

Varicose veins are a common disorder and occur in about 40% of men and 32% of women. However the prevalence of the varicose veins has variability according to the age, gender, duration of reflux, and localization (superficial and/or deep veins). According to the Bonn Vein Study according to the duration of reflux (>500 ms) prevalence of the varicose veins in all veins was 35.3% (superficial vei...