Treatment and contemporary outcomes associated with adjunct tourniquet use during phlebectomy of complex, voluminous truncular varicosities.

Objective: Phlebectomy of large voluminous varicose veins comes with a risk of substantial blood loss. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the outcomes associated with the use of an adjunct tourniquet during varicose vein surgery of complex and large truncular varicosities.

Methods: The prospectively collected registry data included anatomic and outcomes details for patients who presented with complex and large truncular varicosities with a CEAP clinical class of C2, or higher (indicating more serious venous disease) from December 2014 to December 2021.