Valitrack study: Objective evaluation of medical compression wearing time and patient activity with the Accutrack by Sigvaris Group sensor.

Introduction: Objective measurement of compliance is mandatory to evaluate therapeutic effects and clinical benefits of medical compression stockings. This Valitrack study evaluates the Accutrack sensor equipped with an accelerometer. The evaluation is done under controlled and free conditions and during washing.

Physician interpretation of ultrasound in the evaluation of ankle edema.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to assess inter‑ and intra‑observer agreement of detection and grading of oedema measured by vascular physicians using ultrasonography.

Method: In this observational study, three investigators read 113 videos of ultrasonography of the medial lower leg of 77 patients using a 15-18 MHz linear probe and reported whether oedema was present or not and, if present, to what extent. The videos were selected by the coordinator and sent every two months for a period of six months to the three investigators.

Anomalous intraosseous venous drainage: Bone perforators?

Objectives Anomalous intraosseous venous drainage is a rare and almost unknown entity; only 14 cases have been reported in the literature and 4 mentioned in textbooks. We report the characteristics of 35 further cases observed in 32 patients. Method After the presentation of two cases at the congress of the French Society of Phlebology in Paris (2013), 12 colleagues joined to present a large series of so-called bone perforators observed in their practice, all identified with at least a duplex investigation.

How to sensitize patients to their venous disease? A new tool: the venous age calculator.

The venous age is a calculation tool inspired by the arterial age of the Framingham study whose purpose is to sensitize people to their venous conditions and the need of taking care of it. It indicates a person's venous age according to their gender and to the functional signs and physical symptoms they are presenting. The calculation results from the analysis of a worldwide data base including 124,235 people from 24 countries, having or not a venous insufficiency, and whose functional or physical symptoms are described in this study.

Cross-sectional study on heredity and venous disorders: the end of the dominant maternal heredity dogma?

Objective: To evaluate the heredity factor of the chronic venous disorders and odds ratio linked to maternal or paternal heredity.

Methods: Cross-sectional epidemiological study conducted in daily practice of medical practitioners on all patients consulting them. The practitioners described the venous status of all patients consulting them and recorded the familial past history of venous disease.