Venous intima-media thickness increases both in deep and superficial systems in patients with great saphenous vein reflux.

Objective: To evaluate by Doppler ultrasound (DUS) the venous intima-media thickness (vIMT) in patients with or without great saphenous vein (GSV) incompetence.

Methods: A prospective vIMT measurement was performed by DUS in an outpatient cohort. Patients were divided in two groups: group A, patients without GSV reflux; and group B, patients with at least one refluxing GSV.

Underwater Sonography of Leg Veins.

Objectives: Hydrostatic compression (HC) occurring during body immersion is considered beneficial for venous return from the lower limbs. No study has evaluated the effects of HC on the veins of the lower limbs using duplex ultrasound (DU). The purpose of this study was to use DU to evaluate the morphology and flow of the leg veins during immersion.

Management of perforator vein aneurysms in the lower extremities.

Objective: Perforator vein aneurysms (PVAs) of the lower extremity have not been defined or reported. This study reports the clinical presentation of patients, the PVA characteristics, and the clinical outcome of their management.

Methods: Patients with signs and symptoms of chronic venous disease who had a PVA were included.

Benign outcome of objectively proven spontaneous recanalization of internal carotid artery occlusion.

Objective: Spontaneous recanalization of intracranial internal carotid artery (ICA) occlusion is frequent in embolic strokes. Spontaneous recanalization of the extracranial portion of the ICA occlusion of atherosclerotic or embolic origin is only anecdotally reported, and data are lacking about its incidence, natural history, and outcome in long-term follow-up.

Methods: Consecutive patients with ICA occlusion were prospectively identified and followed-up to detect the incidence of a spontaneous recanalization.

Endovenous laser treatment of the small saphenous vein.

Purpose: Endovenous laser treatment is a minimally invasive technique for ablation of the incompetent great (GSV) and small saphenous vein (SSV). Compared with the GSV, fewer data are available on SSV laser ablation and are not validated. This multicenter prospective study evaluated the feasibility, safety, and efficacy of endovenous laser ablation to treat SSVs.

Low-molecular-weight heparin versus compression stockings for thromboprophylaxis after knee arthroscopy: a randomized trial.

Background: Knee arthroscopy, the most common orthopedic operation worldwide, carries a definite risk for deep venous thrombosis; however, postsurgical thromboprophylaxis is not routinely recommended.

Objective: To evaluate whether low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH) better prevents deep venous thrombosis and does not cause more complications than graduated compression stockings in adults having knee arthroscopy.

Design: Assessor-blind, randomized, controlled trial.

Morphological and functional modifications of the aneurysm-endograft complex following endoluminal exclusion in 30 consecutive cases.

Data from 30 consecutive excluded abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) have been analysed, to verify whether important morphological changes take place after exclusion, and whether these can be considered as risk factors for functional (leaks, flow alterations) and clinical complications (rupture, obstruction). All AAAs have been initially successfully excluded and patients have been followed up by clinical examinations and ct scan controls post-operatively, at the third and sixth month, then yearly. At a mean follow-up of 17 months, dimension of the proximal neck increased significantly (> 2 mm in diameter) in five pts and graft was distally dislodged in two.

Twin pregnancy following endoluminal exclusion of an iliac arteriovenous fistula.

Purpose: To demonstrate the sustained efficacy of stent-graft exclusion of a pelvic arteriovenous fistula (AVF) in a woman who became pregnant after treatment.

Case Report: An iatrogenic iliac arteriovenous fistula caused by redo surgery for a herniated disk in a 23-year-old woman was successfully treated with percutaneous endoluminal exclusion. Intravascular ultrasound was particularly useful for localization of the fistula during the procedure.