PHLEBOGRAPHY IN ASSESSING CHRONIC VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY
Abstract:
Chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) (van der Molen) (1) is a clinical syndrome with different etiopathogeny, prognosis and therapeutics that is subsequent to chronic disturbances of venous circulation, especially in the lower limbs, resulting in significant changes of the interstitial space, lymphatics and skin. Chronic venous insufficiency includes two subdivisions clinically similar, but different in terms of etiopathogenesis, therapeutics and prognosis: superficially CVI, representing the late stage of the varicose disease and of the chronic deep venous insufficiency and the postphlebitic syndrome. This article aims at analysing the relevant epidemiological factors in determining the varicose disease and the deep vein thrombosis (endogenous factors: anthropological, anatomical and physiological, genetic, constitutional, sex, age, endocrine factors, pregnancy, obesity, health status and exogenous factors: physical and social, the morphological analysis of the static and dynamic aspects of ultrasound, colour and spectral Doppler in the varicose disease, deep venous thrombosis (DVT) and post thrombotic syndrome, compared with phlebography; establishing the role of the two radio-imaging methods in the diagnosis of chronic venous insufficiency.
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