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Insuffisance veineuse
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Center for Vein Restoration, Greenbelt, Md.
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Department of Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.
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Department of Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.
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Department of Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.
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Department of Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.
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Department of Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.
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Department of Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.
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Department of Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.
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Department of Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.
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Department of Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.
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Iberoamerican Cochrane Centre, Biomedical Research Institute Sant Pau (IIB Sant Pau), CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain.
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Interdisciplinary Surgical Science Program, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), Rua Napoleao de Barros, 420, São Paulo, Brazil.
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Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass. Electronic address: Brandon.Sumpio@mgh.harvard.edu.
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Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass.
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Affiliations :
Vascular Surgery Department, Fundacion Santa Fe de Bogota University Hospital, Bogota, Colombia.
Publications dans "Insuffisance veineuse" :
Chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) and diabetes mellitus (DM) pose significant burdens to patients and healthcare systems. While the two diseases share a number of commonalities in risk factors and pa...
Using a modified Delphi method, a panel of experts developed 38 Likert Scale and two multiple choice questions across six key themes. These were used to form an online survey which was disseminated th...
A total of 238 responses were received. 27/38 statements attained >90% agreement, nine of 38 attained between 75-90%, and two failed to meet the threshold (<75%). The awareness around the impact of th...
The high level of agreement shows that healthcare professionals are aware of the gaps in identification and treatment of patients with concomitant CVI and DM, and of the need to approach this as a com...
Chronic superficial venous disease, including superficial venous insufficiency, superficial venous thrombosis, and aneurysms, are prevalent conditions that affect millions of individuals worldwide. Wi...
Venous insufficiency is a common medical condition that affects many individuals, especially those with advanced age. Chronic venous insufficiency can lead to secondary cutaneous changes that most com...
Venous leg ulcers (VLUs) are one of the most common forms of chronic wounds and with nearly half the people having recurrent episodes, this significantly impacts a patient's quality of life. As such, ...
VLUs can be of mixed etiology and treatment should be aimed at optimizing the underlying venous hypertension based on its cause. If there is an anatomical venous reflux contributing to the non-healing...
Chronic venous disease (CVD) is a highly prevalent disease that presents a wide spectrum of clinical expressions due to abnormalities in the venous system. Patients often have major functional changes...
To identify the functional factors associated with CVD severity....
Seventy-five patients with CVD (92.0% females, 49.6 ± 13.3 years) were evaluated through clinical examination, lower limb perimetry, ankle range of motion (AROM), and lower limb muscle strength by the...
Patients with severe CVD (n = 13) were older (p = 0.002), predominantly male (p = 0.007), with reduced AROM in dorsiflexion (p = 0.028) and inversion (p = 0.009), reduced lower limb strength by the He...
The increased ankle circumference was a determinant of the CVD severity and may assist in risk stratification and guide treatment goals in this population....
Evidence suggests that chronic venous disease (CVD) may be a cardiovascular disorder, as patients with CVD are prone to developing arterial (atherosclerosis) and venous (thromboembolism) diseases. Thi...
VEIN STEP was conducted to collect international data on the management of chronic venous disease (CVD) and to assess the effectiveness of conservative treatments for the relief of CVD signs and sympt...
This international, observational, prospective, longitudinal, cohort study recruited adult outpatients consulting for symptomatic CVD. The primary objective was the effectiveness of conservative treat...
The analysis set comprised 6084 subjects (78% female) from nine countries with a mean age of 50.6 ± 13.8 years and BMI of 28.0 ± 4.9 kg/m...
In this prospective study conducted in the real-world setting, treatment with conservative therapy, in particular MPFF, was associated with meaningful improvements in the clinical signs and symptoms o...
ClinicalTrials.gov identifier NCT04574375....
This review will focus on comprehensive evaluation of chronic venous insufficiency (CVI), nuances in diagnostic testing and advances in medical therapies to provide improvement in patient specific out...
Chronic venous insufficiency of the lower extremities represents an often underrecognized source of morbidity. Comprehensive evaluation focuses on personal and family history of deep vein thrombosis a...
Chronic leg ulcers are one of the clinical manifestations of untreated traumatic arteriovenous fistula (AVF). Ulcers due to secondary venous etiology like AVF are rare and easily missed. We present th...
This study aimed to evaluate the variability in practice patterns associated with the performance of duplex ultrasound (DUS) for venous insufficiency....
Sonographers participated in a survey regarding patient positioning and method of augmentation as well as the availability of ergonomic equipment for DUS....
DUS was performed in RT position by 41% of sonographers versus standing position in 40%. In 18% of laboratories, if the RT position did not demonstrate reflux, the study was repeated in the standing p...
There is a lack of standardization for the performance parameters of patient position and method of augmentation in VDU, which may lead to variation in the results between sonographers and institution...