Endovenous management of venous leg ulcers
Raju S, Kirk OK, Jones TL. J Vasc Surg Venous Lymphat Disord. 2013;1:165-173. Reviewed by: Ramesh K Tripathi and Himanshu Verma Narayana Institute of Vascular Sciences, Bangalore, India This is an important paper highlighting the various modalities of treatment that come into play in the treatment of venous leg ulceration due to chronic venous insufficiency. The authors apparently were able to follow-up on 192 limbs that had failed conservative therapy and then underwent endovascular treatment that included 39 endovenous laser ablation (ELVA ) of superficial axial veins, 99 iliac vein stents and 59 using both procedures in combination. The numbers…
