Publications by authors named "Denis Creton"
Background: Radiofrequency segmental thermal ablation (RSTA) has become a commonly used technology for occlusion of incompetent great saphenous veins (GSVs). Midterm results and data on clinical parameters are still lacking.
Methods: A prospective multicenteral trial monitored 295 RSTA-treated GSVs for 36 months.
This prospective and multicenter study shows the results at 1 year of radiofrequency-powered segmental thermal obliteration (RSTO) carried out with the ClosureFast procedure. The RSTO clinical and duplex ultrasound imaging results were evaluated at 3 days, 3 months, 6 months, and 1 year. All procedures were carried out on outpatients under tumescent local anesthesia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The objective was to examine the evolution of superficial venous disease after the suppression of every principal or accessory saphenous trunk.
Methods: To achieve this aim, the long-term results of complete ablation of saphenous trunks and varicose veins during redo surgery for recurrent great saphenous veins have been assessed. Of 170 extremities (137 patients), 4.
Objective: To assess the clinical and duplex ultrasound scan findings in the groin and thigh 2 years after great saphenous vein (GSV) radiofrequency endovenous obliteration (RFO).
Methods: Sixty-three limbs in 56 patients with symptomatic varicose veins and GSV incompetence were treated with RFO, usually with adjunctive stab-avulsion phlebectomies, and examined at a median follow-up of 25 months, by using a color-coded, duplex sonography protocol that mandated views in at least two planes of the saphenofemoral junction (SFJ) and its tributaries and at three GSV levels in the thigh.
Results: The commonest duplex finding in the groin was an open, competent, SFJ with a < or =5-cm patent terminal GSV segment conducting prograde tributary flow through the SFJ (82%).