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Venous bypass and valve reconstruction: long-term efficacy

Department of Vascular Surgery, Straub Clinic and Hospital, Honolulu, Hawaii and John A Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Robert L Kistner

Department of Vascular Surgery, Straub Clinic and Hospital, Honolulu, Hawaii and John A Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Elna M Masuda

Department of Vascular Surgery, Straub Clinic and Hospital, Honolulu, Hawaii and John A Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Palma and Esperon described the first femoro-femoral cross-over bypass for iliac vein obstruction in 1958, and Kistner performed the first valve reconstruction for deep vein reflux in 1968. Such surgical development has stimulated better diagnostic methods that now form the foundation for a classification of chronic venous disease, and surgery has been supported by, and sometimes replaced by, the rapid progress in endovascular procedures with angioplasty and stenting. The ability now exists to relieve obstruction and repair reflux in the deep veins, and the results in the successful cases demonstrate the improvement that follows correction of the physiologic abnormalities. The detail in workup required to achieve an accurate diagnosis that is adequate enough to guide surgical treatment in these cases has set a new standard for the diagnosis of chronic venous disease that incorporates the clinical state, etiology, pathophysiology and anatomic distribution of the venous problem, and is incorporated in the CEAP (clinical, etiologic, anatomic, pathophysiologic) classification. The challenge at this time is to produce a reliable set of data that demonstrate the results of treatment in patients with chronic venous disease by conventional methods of bandaging, rest and elevation as well as specific surgical correction of venous obstruction and reflux and to follow these cases over a significant period of time.

Key Words: chronic venous disease • long-term outcome • valve reconstruction • venous bypass • venous obstruction • venous reflux

Vascular Medicine, Vol. 3, No. 2, 157-164 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/1358836X9800300210


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