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| Â | THE MERCK MANUAL, Sec. 16, Ch. 212, Peripheral Vascular Disorders |
 | | Firm pressure is applied at the groin to occlude the long saphenous vein; while the pressure is maintained, the patient should stand. | | | Heavier elastic (support) stockings, knee-length or thigh-length, may be worn by patients with advanced varicose veins who prefer not to have active therapy or in whom active therapy is contraindicated. | | | Venous flow is most efficient when contracting muscles compress the sinusoids and deep veins, thereby pumping blood toward the heart; the direction of flow is controlled by the venous valves. |
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| Â | Varicose veins - Interesteing Facts and help with Varicose veins |
| | Most vascular surgeons feel that patients with incompetence of the long and short saphenous veins and their major branches should have surgery since the recurrence rate is less. | | | Venography: this involves placing a needle in a vein in the foot and injecting contrast media into the vein. | | | In short saphenous vein surgery the common peroneal nerve may be damaged causing foot drop. |
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http://www.londonsurgeon.co.uk/Varicose_Veins_information.htm
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| Â | Surgical treatment of varicose veins |
| | Saphenous surgery does not correct perforator incompetence in the presence of deep venous reflux. | | | It should be noted that stripping the short saphenous vein is associated with a high incidence of sural nerve injury. | | | The recently developed technique of subfascial endoscopic perforator surgery (SEPS) has allowed perforating veins to be divided effectively with minimal morbidity through a small incision. |
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http://www.rcsed.ac.uk/Journal/vol46_3/4630006.htm
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| Â | Doctors Information |
| | Ultrasound-guided echosclerotherapy has been introduced over the past 15 years as an alternative to surgery to treat patients with varicose veins due to saphenous reflux. | | | Results reported for more than 400 patients show a low risk of complications and excellent short to medium-term results This technique is used to block off the main saphenous veins by passing up a laser probe introduced through a puncture needle under local anaesthetic with ultrasound guidance. | | | There was no difference for the frequency of continuing success or failure, patency or reflux, or their distribution according to whether the long or short saphenous vein was treated, the original source of reflux, or associated deep venous reflux. |
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http://www.victoriaveinclinic.com.au/doctorsinformation.htm
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| Â | ASM 15(4); Review Article: Human Saphenous Veins |
| | After implantation, saphenous vein grafts are exposed to a different physiological environment with marked changes in blood flow and changes in transmural pressure. | | | Despite these changes, saphenous vein grafts maintain their ability to constrict and relax to a range of agonists. | | | Improvement in early saphenous vein patency after coronary artery bypass surgery with antiplatelet therapy: results of a Veterans Administration cooperative study. |
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http://www.kfshrc.edu.sa/annals/154/94319/94319.html
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| Â | Causes of Venous Insufficiency |
| | Physicians should conduct additional research for information about varicose veins and treatment and the prevention of varicose veins using endovenous laser technology (evl),, and treating venous reflux | | | Patients whose legs have been treated are put on walking regimens, which improves circulation and prevents blood clots. |
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| Â | Phlebology - The Scientific Journal for Veins |
| | In 411 limbs with greater saphenous incompetence, including 101 with skin changes and 310 without skin changes, clinical analysis and plethysmographic evaluation using the photoplethysmographic technique were carried out. | | | Babcock introduced the most widely used technique of saphenous vein stripping in 1908. | | | Varicose vein surgery has been in existence for many years, but it is only in this century that it has achieved any degree of sophistication. |
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http://www.medi-data.co.uk/phlebology/Phleb-Abs_14_2.htm
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| Â | Information on saphenous vein, reflux, venous reflux disease, varicose veins, spider veins |
| | Talk to your doctor about the endovenous obliteration, endovenous laser, sclerotherapy, phlebectomy, and other treatment options for saphenous vein reflux. | | | Endovenous Laser: A New Minimally Invansive Method of Treatment for Varicose Veins – Preliminary Observations Using an 810 nm Diode Laser |
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http://www.saphenous-ablation.com/Info/Saphenous_Vein_Reflux_Info.htm
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| Â | Each lower limb has three anatomically and functionally distinguishable sets of veins viz |
| | These are situated beneath the skin in the superficial fascia. | | | For similar reasons, soleus is called the "peripheral heart". | | | This condition commonly occurs in the superficial veins of the lower limb, and although not a fatal disease, it is responsible for considerable discomfort, pain and suffering in innumerable persons. |
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http://www.drkrishnagarg.com/lower22.htm
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| Â | References |
| | Tessari L, Cavezzi A & Frullini A (2001) Preliminary experience with a new sclerosing foam in the treatment of varicose veins. | | | A patient outcome study following varicose vein surgery using the SF-36 Health Assessment Questionnaire. |
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http://herkules.oulu.fi/isbn9514267230/html/b1527.html
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| Â | Immediate-early gene expression in human saphenous veins harvested during coronary artery bypass graft operations -- ... |
| | George E. Reed, MD Valhalla N.Y. From the Departments of Surgery, Experimental Pathology, and Medicine, New York Medical College, Valhalla, N.Y. Address for reprints: Richard A. Moggio, MD, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY 10595. | | | information may lead to molecular therapies to control saphenous | | | In the present study, human saphenous vein grafts were harvested |
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http://jtcs.ctsnetjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/110/1/209
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| Â | VNUS Medical Technologies, Inc. |
| | is a clinically proven, minimally invasive procedure that treats varicose veins and their underlying cause, venous reflux, with little or no pain. | | | Closure patients can walk away from the procedure and be back to everyday activities – either at home or at work – typically within a day. |
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http://www.rf-ablation.net/Info/Clinical_Data.htm
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| Â | Adenosine receptors and phosphodiesterase inhibitors stimulate Cl- secretion in Calu-3 cells. Effects of sildenafil ... |
| | Sildenafil exerts potent vasodilatory actions but has no direct influence on human myocardial contractility or proarrhythmic effects in vitro. | | | These studies also indicate that PDEis have the capacity to augment an endogenous CFTR-activating pathway in an "in vivo"-like model system, and supports future investigations of these agents relevant to cystic fibrosis. | | | Effects of sildenafil (viagra) on human myocardial contractility, in vitro arrhythmias, and tension of internal mammaria arteries and saphenous veins. |
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http://dreampharmaceuticals.com/ref-viagra/viagra-research-abs-2.22.html
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| Â | Forbes.com: Boston Scientific Gets Vein Filter OK |
| | The device, which uses a guidewire and is placed downstream of the procedure, traps material that is dislodged during angioplasty and stenting procedures to prevent it from traveling to tiny vessels in the heart and producing a heart attack. | | | Saphenous veins, which are located in the leg, are transplanted by surgeons for use as replacement vessels during heart bypass surgery. | | | Called the FilterWire EZ embolic protection system, the device acts as a filter during procedures when surgeons clear a saphenous vein graft with an angioplasty balloon or prop it open with a stent. |
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http://www.forbes.com/home_europe/feeds/ap/2004/08/23/ap1515302.html
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| Â | No more Hand Veins - The Schulman Vein Center |
| | Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery (Film Presentation) “Femoropopliteal Bypass with Superficial Femoral-Popliteal Vein Graft” Scottsdale, Arizona, March 26, 1987 | | | “Can Spider Vein and Varicose Vein Sclerotherapy be Successful in Patients Taking Coumadin? | | | The Academy of Ambulatory Foot Surgery (Visiting Lecturer) |
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| Â | Medical Breakthroughs - Learn More About Heart Disease |
| | The heart pumps your five quarts of blood around your body 500 times a day. | | | Usually the grafts are fashioned from one of the large, accessible saphenous veins that run down the inside of the leg, although recently there has been a trend towards using the internal mammary arteries located under the chest wall. | | | Therefore, instead of trying to scrape out the plaques, the surgeon uses a segment of a vessel from another part of the body to transport blood to the far side of the obstruction. |
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http://www.healthscout.com/ency/1/458/main.html
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| Â | Long saphenous territory - Perforating veins |
| | Just like the saphenous veins or pelvic veins, each of these perforating veins can constitute a pathway of reflux from the deep network to the superficial network. | | | The perforating vein is sometimes visualized over its entire course, plunging into a muscle or traveling along the edge of the muscle ( Figure 46). | | | Finally, some perforating veins ascend inside the muscle. |
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http://www.phlebologia.com/en/terr_saph_int_01.asp
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| Â | Effect of neuraminidase on diltiazem-mediated alteration of nitrendipine binding in the hog coronary artery. ... |
| | Effects of nicardipine and diltiazem on alpha-adrenoceptor responses in canine saphenous veins. | | | These calcium antagonists appeared to have only small post-synaptic inhibitory effects on the contractile responses to alpha-agonists in the canine saphenous vein with nicardipine exerting a greater inhibitory influence than diltiazem. | | | Jayakody RL, Senaratne MP, Kappagoda T. The effects of calcium antagonists, diltiazem and nicardipine (-6.0 to -4.0 log mol/l), on the contractile responses to noradrenaline, methoxamine and BHT-920 in isolated canine saphenous vein rings, were studied with isometric tension recordings. |
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http://darwinpharmacy.com/ref-diltiazem/diltiazem-research-abs3.385.html
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| Â | Short saphenous territory - Perforating veins - General appearance |
| | They are sometimes related to the medial inframalleolar perforating veins of the foot, or more rarely with an inferior vein of the soleus muscle. | | | Thomson H. The surgical anatomy of the superficial and perforating veins of the lower limb. | | | Some anatomical landmarks will help define their topography: |
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http://www.phlebologia.com/en/veines_perforantes_aspect.asp
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| Â | Effects of calcium channel blockers on ouabain-induced oscillatory afterpotentials in organ-cultured young embryonic ... |
| | Comparison of the data obtained on unfrozen and frozen/thawed veins revealed a good preservation of both contractile responsiveness and 45Ca2+ uptake mechanisms after storage at -190 degrees C. It is suggested that cryopreservation is a useful technique for storing venous smooth muscle for pharmacological studies. | | | These results suggest that an intracellular site of action of the calcium channel blockers is important for depression of the OAPs, and suppression of the slow inward Ca2+ current cannot be the sole mechanism for suppression of the OAPs by these drugs. | | | Effects of calcium channel blockade in canine saphenous veins after storage at -190 degrees C. Ebeigbe AB, Muller-Schweinitzer E, Vogel A. Preclinical Research, Sandoz Ltd., Basel, Switzerland. |
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http://darwinpharmacy.com/ref-diltiazem/diltiazem-research-abs3.34.html
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| Â | Artificial Heart Chamber And Artificial Blood Vessels Aid Cardiovascular Surgeons |
| | Szycher said human trials are underway in Europe in which the polymer vessels are being used to cleanse the blood of kidney patients during renal dialysis. | | | Since most saphenous veins fail after about 12 years, and because removing the vein from the leg can interfere with circulation from the leg to the heart, scientists have been looking for artificial replacements for nearly two decades, he said. | | | The artificial vessels are designed to substitute for the saphenous vein, the major vein in the leg that is most often used to replace clogged coronary arteries. |
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/08/980828073219.htm
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| Â | Artigos publicados em 2001 |
| | Brochado-Neto, M.; Albers, M.; Pereira, C. B.; Gonzales, J. e Cinneli Jr, M. Prospective comparison of arm veins and greater saphenous veins as infrageniculate by pass grafts. |
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| Â | Saphenous Veins |
| | The femoral and the great saphenous veins merge into the external iliac vein. | | | These vessels drain into two major trunks: the small and great saphenous veins. | | | The "small saphenous vein" begins on the lateral portion of the foot and passes upward, rising along the back of the calf, enters the popliteal fossa (a depression in the bone behind the knee) to join the popliteal vein. |
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