Core content for venous and Lymphatic Medicine: 2022 revision.

The core content for a medical specialty outlines the scope of the discipline as well as the categories of knowledge considered essential to practice in the field. It provides a template for the development of curricula for medical school, graduate, and postgraduate education, as well as for creating certification standards. Venous and Lymphatic Medicine (VLM) is a specialty that has benefitted from contributions from specialists from several medical disciplines.

Expected changes in physician outpatient interventional practices as a result of coronavirus disease 2019 and recent changes in Medicare physician fee schedule.

Objective: We examined the economic and practice effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and decreased Medicare physician payments on outpatient vascular interventional procedures.

Methods: A 21-point survey was constructed and sent electronically to the physician members of the Outpatient Endovascular and Interventional Society and the American Vein and Lymphatic Society. The survey responses were converted to a Likert scale and statistical analyses performed to examine the associations between the response variables and the characteristics and practice patterns of the physician respondents.

Ultrasound-guided foam sclerotherapy is safe and effective in the management of superficial venous insufficiency of the lower extremity.

Background: Superficial venous disease of the lower extremity has a significant impact on quality of life. Both truncal and tributary vein reflux contribute to this disease process. Endovenous foam sclerotherapy is a widely used technique throughout the world for the management of superficial venous reflux and ultrasound guidance improves its safety and efficacy.

The need for participation in the development and critical review of recommendations for infection control policies involving vascular ultrasound.

Recently reported guidelines from the Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonography regarding disinfection of ultrasound probes and infection control policies for ultrasound procedures conflict with accepted clinical norms in vein practices and recommendations from the American Institute for Ultrasound in Medicine. We have provided a review of these conflicting policy recommendations and new proposed practice recommendations and a call for physicians who perform ultrasound-guided procedures to be involved in the process of development and critical review of societal recommendations.

Venous angioplasty and stenting improve pelvic congestion syndrome caused by venous outflow obstruction.

Objective: Pelvic congestion syndrome (PCS) is widely thought to be due to ovarian or internal iliac vein reflux. This report of a retrospective review of treatment of nonthrombotic common iliac vein (CIV) or inferior vena cava (IVC) obstruction with relief of symptoms demonstrates an often overlooked pathologic process. Stent placement is evaluated as an effective treatment of PCS due to venous obstruction even if observed left ovarian vein (OV) reflux is left untreated.