Lateral marginal vein: Have we understood its significance?

Stent-graft migration: how do we know when we have it and what is its significance?

What have we learned from the Bonn Vein Study?

Between November 2000 and March 2002, the German Society of Phlebology, in cooperation with the german ministry of health, performed the Bonn Vein Study in the city of Bonn and two rural townships. The participants were chosen from a simple randomized sample taken from the population registers. In total, 3072 (1722 women, 1350 men) participants between 18 and 79 years of age were investigated. ...

Have we forgotten the significance of postpartum iron deficiency?

The postpartum period is conventionally thought to be the time of lowest iron deficiency risk because iron status is expected to improve dramatically after delivery. Nonetheless, recent studies have reported a high prevalence of postpartum iron deficiency and anemia among ethnically diverse low-income populations in the United States. In light of the recent emergence of this problem in the medi...

Gigantism of the lower limb in Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome: anatomy of the lateral marginal vein.

The Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome is a combination of venous and capillary malformations associated with soft tissue and/or bony limb hypertrophy, with or without lymphatic malformations. Although persistent foetal veins are rare, the persistence of the lateral marginal vein is a common association in this syndrome. It results in venous hypertension, which gives rise to venous varicosities, which ...

An interconnected duplicated femoral vein and its clinical significance.

Anatomical variations in the femoral vein are of great clinical importance especially in cases of deep vein thrombosis (DVT). Knowledge of the variable anatomy of the femoral vein is important to minimise false-negative findings on ultrasound examination in patients with DVT and help to explain the 'silent' DVT. Furthermore, the presence of a duplicated femoral vein itself is associated with hi...