Venous Ablation

Sahil Agrawal; Walid Saber

doi:10.1016/j.iccl.2019.12.007

Venous Ablation

Interv Cardiol Clin. 2020 Apr;9(2):255-263. doi: 10.1016/j.iccl.2019.12.007. Epub 2020 Feb 5.

Authors

Sahil Agrawal¹, Walid Saber²

Affiliations

¹ Warren Clinic Cardiology of Tulsa, Saint Francis Hospital, 6161 South Yale Avenue, Tulsa, OK 74136, USA.
² Interventional Vascular Services, Non-invasive Vascular Lab, Landmark Medical Center, Woonsocket, RI, USA; Brown University, Providence, RI, USA; Oceanstate Cardiovascular & Vein Center, 191 Social Street, Suite 100, Woonsocket, RI 02895, USA. Electronic address: wsaber@oscvc.com.

PMID: 32147125
DOI: 10.1016/j.iccl.2019.12.007

Abstract

Chronic venous insufficiency is a common and a highly prevalent vascular disorder, that occurs as a result of venous reflux owing to defective venous valves, which in turn causes venous hypertension with significant symptom burden that can interfere with quality of life. Therapeutic strategy involves lowering the venous pressure by lifestyle changes, compression therapy, and conventional catheter-based thermal ablation and novel nonthermal, nontumescent techniques of ablating the affected veins.

Keywords: Varicose veins; Venous ablations; Venous insufficiency.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Catheter Ablation / methods*
Chronic Disease
Humans
Severity of Illness Index
Vascular Surgical Procedures / methods*
Venous Insufficiency / diagnosis
Venous Insufficiency / surgery*