Venous Disease Simplified

A minimum data set for chronic venous disease

Acute venous disease: venous thrombosis and venous trauma.

Acute venous disorders include deep venous thrombosis, superficial venous thrombophlebitis, and venous trauma. Deep venous thrombosis (DVT) most often arises from the convergence of multiple genetic and acquired risk factors, with a variable estimated incidence of 56 to 160 cases per 100,000 population per year. Acute thrombosis is followed by an inflammatory response in the thrombus and vein w...

Chronic venous disease.

From the Departments of Surgery ( J.J.B.) and Bioengineering (G.W.S.-S.), Whitaker Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla; the Department of Vascular Surgery, Royal Free and University College Medical School, Middlesex Hospital, London (P.D.C.S.); the Department of Surgery, Imperial College London, University of Cyprus, and Vascular Screening and Diag...

Lower Extremity Venous Disease

Lower extremity venous disease is extremely common, with varicose veins remaining the most frequently encountered venous condition followed by chronic venous insuffi ciency.1,2 The two conditions often occur together, but each condition may also be present clinically without the other. Lower extremity venous disease comprises a clinical spectrum ranging from completely asymptomatic telangiectas...

Venous Occlusive Disease

Our understanding of cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) has greatly increased in recent years due primarily to improved radiographic methods of diagnosis (1,2). Prior to the advent of modern neuroimaging, estimates of the incidence of cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) relied largely on autopsy series (3,4). More recent studies that employ radiographic techniques have demonstrated a higher incidenc...