Abdominal hypertension and venous insufficiency of lower limbs: is there a relationship?

Objective: The purpose of our study is to understand the compression, by subcutaneous fat in obese patients, who present a chronic increase in abdominal pressure, and on the sapheno-femoral cross. Such increase would result in a chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) of lower limbs and, if possible, it will be quantified also according to the posture.

Material And Methods: We studied two different groups of patients with CVI: obese and non-obese.