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- Title
External Valvuloplasty of the Saphenofemoral Junction.
- Authors
Zamboni, Paolo; Gasbarro, Vincenzo; Marcellino, Maria Grazia; Murgia, Anna Paola; Feo, Carlo; Liboni, Alberto; Donini, Ippolito
- Abstract
Thirty-five patients (32 women, 3 men, mean age thirty-four years old) underwent external valvuloplasty of the saphenofemoral junction (EV-SFJ). The surgical rationale of this operation is the evidence, in the first stage of primary varicose disease, of a normal valvular apparatus in a dilatated phlebosclerotic vein wall. EV-SFJ restores valve function by correcting vein wall dilatation. EV-SFJ was performed under local anesthesia and, in the last 10 cases, with intraoperative angioscopy. This examination confirms the presence of a complete apparatus of the terminal and of the subterminal long saphenous valves and allows the intraoperative control of the correction of vein wall dilatation. Follow-up was from five to fifty-seven months (average forty-two months).
- Subjects
PATIENTS; SURGERY; VARICOSE veins; ANESTHESIA
- Publication
Vascular Surgery, 1994, Vol 28, Issue 5, p327
- ISSN
0042-2835
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/153857449402800504