Venous outflow obstruction: an underestimated contributor to chronic venous disease

Venous outflow obstruction: An underestimated contributor to chronic venous disease.

OBJECTIVE To assess the importance of iliac venous outflow obstruction in limbs with and without concomitant deep or superficial reflux, we performed a retrospective analysis of data contemporaneously entered into a set time-stamped electronic medical records program. MATERIAL AND METHOD Four hundred forty-seven limbs underwent iliac vein stenting of chronic, nonmalignant obstruction when gre...

A minimum data set for chronic venous disease

Deep axial reflux, an important contributor to skin changes or ulcer in chronic venous disease.

OBJECTIVE We undertook this cross-sectional study to investigate the distribution of venous reflux and effect of axial reflux in superficial and deep veins and to determine the clinical value of quantifying peak reverse flow velocity and reflux time in limbs with chronic venous disease. PATIENTS AND METHODS Four hundred one legs (127 with skin changes, 274 without skin changes) in 272 patient...

Venous outflow obstruction and portopulmonary hypertension after orthotopic liver transplantation

PATIENT Female, 54 FINAL DIAGNOSIS: Suprahepatic inferior vena cava anastomosis stricture Symptoms: Ascites • fatigue • lower limb edema • hepatomegaly MEDICATION - Clinical Procedure: - Specialty: Transplantology • Critical Care Medicine. OBJECTIVE Unusual clinical course. BACKGROUND Suprahepatic inferior vena cava anastomosis stricture is an unusual vascular complication after orthotopi...

Cranial venous outflow obstruction and pseudotumor Cerebri syndrome.

The pathophysiology of PTS including idiopathic intracranial hypertension or 'BIH', remains controversial. The older literature frequently referred to pathology in the cerebral venous drainage but more modern imaging techniques (CT and early MR) failed to reveal gross venous pathology. The role of impaired cranial venous outflow has recently been re-examined in the light of new methods of inves...