Correction to: VEIN STEP: A Prospective, Observational, International Study to Assess Effectiveness of Conservative Treatments in Chronic Venous Disease.

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VEIN STEP: A Prospective, Observational, International Study to Assess Effectiveness of Conservative Treatments in Chronic Venous Disease.

Introduction: VEIN STEP was conducted to collect international data on the management of chronic venous disease (CVD) and to assess the effectiveness of conservative treatments for the relief of CVD signs and symptoms.

Methods: This international, observational, prospective, longitudinal, cohort study recruited adult outpatients consulting for symptomatic CVD. The primary objective was the effectiveness of conservative treatments on symptoms, signs and quality of life in a real-life setting assessed using a range of patient-reported outcome measures: 10-cm Visual Analog and Patient Global Impression of Change scales for symptoms; Venous Clinical Severity Score for physician assessment of signs; and 14-item ChronIc Venous Insufficiency Questionnaire (CIVIQ-14) for quality of life.

Epidemiology and clinical characteristics of chronic venous disease in Romania.

Chronic venous disorder (CVD) is a complex disease, that affects millions of people worldwide, and due to the fact that in its early stages is often overlooked by healthcare providers and ignored by the patient, the assessment of incidence and prevalence of CVD is difficult to be made. The aim of this project was to assess the CVD prevalence, risk factors and clinical characteristics in the adult population in Romania. A cross-sectional survey was carried out in Romania from June 2015 to July 2015, including 185 general practitioners (GPs).

Impact of chronic venous disease on quality of life: Results of vein alarm study.

Chronic venous disease (CVD) affects millions of people and negatively impacting the patient's quality of life (QoL) and most of the patients are diagnosed with CVD in advanced stages. The impact of newly diagnosed CVD on QoL has not been evaluated by other studies in Romania. The aim of this study was to assess the QoL for adult patients newly diagnosed with CVD addressing to the General Practitioner's (GP) office in Romania between June to August 2016.

[Non-surgical management of patients with blunt abdominal injury: the role of angiography].

Objective: We evaluated the efficacy of nonsurgical management of patients with blunt hepatic or renal injury using detailed angiographic examinations and transcatheter arterial embolization.

Methods: The study comprises 5 patients: 3 patients with blunt hepatic injury and 2 patients with blunt renal injury. All patients had CT evidence of hepatic injury, respectively renal injury.

[Bi-layer hernioplasty in day surgery].

Nowadays the modern surgical techniques of hernia repair highly consider not only the decrease of the recurrence rate, but also a fast recovery, minimal postoperative pain and low costs of this type of surgery. This paper presents the preliminary results of a study performed on 41 patients diagnosed with inguinal hernia and operated under local anesthesia, as day surgery cases, during 2004-2006. The selection of the patients was performed under the "Guidelines and Standards for Day Surgery in Australia".