Ultrasound-guided injection of polidocanol microfoam in the management of venous leg ulcers.

Background: Venous leg ulceration is a frequent and severe complication of lower limb venous insufficiency. Compression therapy is associated with a protracted course of healing and multiple recurrences. Minimally invasive surgery (subfascial endoscopic perforating surgery) is only possible in a subset of patients with leg ulcers.

Treatment of venous malformations with sclerosant in microfoam form.

Background: Treatment of congenital venous malformations poses a major clinical challenge. Surgery is difficult and frequently unsuccessful, radiological intervention with embolization has an ill-defined role, and conventional sclerotherapy has little to offer.

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of sclerosant in microfoam form in treating congenital venous malformations.

Sclerosants in microfoam. A new approach in angiology.

Background: The aim of this work was to study the outcomes of echosclerosis using sclerosants in microfoam incompetent long saphenous veins, hypertensive venous ulcers and inoperable venous malformations and to record any secondary effects.

Methods: We examined the records, pre- and post-treatment and follow-up colour photographs, and echo Doppler images for: 415 patients with incompetent long saphenous veins of diameter more than 9 mm in 265 patients suffering from postsurgical recurrence of varicose saphenous veins; 72 patients with venous ulcers; and 31 with venous malformations. All patients had been treated with ultrasound-guided injections of sclerosants in microfoam.