Ultrasound-guided foam sclerotherapy of the saphenous trunks is associated with a low 5-year recurrence rate and improved quality of life in patients with chronic venous disease: A multicenter study.

Objective: The study attempts to test whether ultrasound-guided foam sclerotherapy (UGFS) is a durable treatment for incompetent great saphenous vein (GSV) and incompetent small saphenous vein (SSV) in primary chronic venous disease (CVD), Clinical-Etiology-Anatomy-Pathophysiology (CEAP) clinical grade 2 to 4 disease. Secondary end points are to evaluate its safety in terms of complications, to compare patients' quality of life before and after the treatment, and to identify risk factors that may predict recurrence of CVD after UGFS.

Methods: Multicenter retrospective cohort study on 346 patients.

Selective high ligation of the sapheno-femoral junction decreases the neovascularization and the recurrent varicose veins in the operated groin.

Aim: High ligation (HL) and stripping of GSV can be distinguished in Babcock's radical ligation (RHL), and selective (SHL): the new technique consists to ligate the SFJ keeping some of the tributary veins. The study analyzes the neovascularization and recurrence incidence in the groin after the SHL.

Methods: A retrospective study performed in a center specialized in venous surgery in Italy, it included 360 patients underwent unilateral varicose vein surgery from January 2001 to December 2008 (210 females and 150 males, mean aged 51.

Spray formulation of silver and hyaluronic acid in the treatment of superficial cutaneous ulcers of different etiopathogenesis: analysis of fifty-four clinical cases.

Aim: The aim of this study was to assess a spray formulation containing colloidal silver and hyaluronic acid.

Methods: Patients included in the study were divided in two separate groups: 30 patients had chronic wounds and 24 patients had superficial traumatic wounds. Applications were performed at intervals of 3-7 days, depending upon lesions characteristics.

Multicenter randomized trial comparing compression with elastic stocking versus bandage after surgery for varicose veins.

Objectives: Postoperative limb compression is widely used after venous surgery to prevent thromboembolism and to reduce hemorrhage, edema, hematoma, and pain. Only limited studies have been published regarding the most adequate postoperative compression therapy after varicose vein surgery. This study evaluated the effectiveness of a new stocking kit used for postoperative limb compression.