[Saint Petersburg Venous Forum 'Christmas Meetings' - 10th anniversary].

The article is a review of the reports delivered at the annual Saint Petersburg Venous Forum 'Christmas Meetings'. In 2017 it was held for the 10th time. Widely covered at the Forum were problems concerning non-tumescent methods of treatment of varicose veins, methods of diagnosis and treatment of deep-vein diseases, problems of pathogenesis of post-thrombotic disease, terminology in problems of phlebology.

[Experience with using cyanoacrylate glue in endovascular treatment of varicose veins].

The method of cyanoacrylate-mediated obliteration of subcutaneous veins is known to be an alternative to thermal endovascular obliteration and eliminates the need for tumescent anaesthesia. This technique is based on glue-induced damage to the venous intima, followed by immune response according to the delayed-type hypersensitivity principle. The authors report herein their first experience with using cyanoacrylate-mediated embolization in treatment of patients presenting with varicose veins.

[Endovascular treatment of a patient with post-thrombotic disease and obstruction of a cava filter].

Balloon angioplasty and stenting have increasingly been gaining widespread application for treatment of post-thrombotic alterations in the system of the vena cava. Endovascular ultrasonographic examination makes it possible with the utmost degree of reliability to determine both the extension and degree of the narrowing of venous segments, thus proving a possibility of choosing a venous stent of an appropriate diameter. Restoration of an adequate venous lumen leads to normalization of blood flow and elimination of venous hypertension.

[First experience with intravascular ultrasonographic examination in diagnosis of post-traumatic obstruction of deep veins].

Intravascular ultrasonography (IVUS) is a highly effective method of diagnosis of post-thrombotic obstructions. Its possibilities by determining the degree and extension of obstructions of deep veins are superior to those of not only non-invasive methods of examination (ultrasonography, CT and MRI) but of phlebography whose results until recently were considered fundamental in diagnosis of the disease concerned. Limited possibilities of phlebography often lead to diagnostic errors when determining the degree and extension of post-thrombotic obstructions.

[Open thrombectomy in treatment of acute thromboses of lower-limb deep veins].

Thrombosis of lower-limb deep veins is one of the most common vascular diseases in the world. For a long time the generally accepted treatment policy was conservative therapy with anticoagulants. The article is a review of the literature containing the results of studies carried out over the past two decades and confirming efficacy of surgical treatment for acute venous thrombosis.