Main description:

This text provides an overview of venous diseases and focuses on clinical evaluation and management. It is intended to guide the treating physician by summarizing the evidence, giving technical tips, and outlining algorithms for common conditions. A unique feature of this book is clinical pearls given by experts in the field that are highlighted in each chapter. The first section of the book describes the essential anatomy and physiology/pathophysiology. It also includes evaluation of common presentations of venous diseases such as extremity edema and lower extremity ulceration with a summary for work up that includes conditions that can mimic venous diseases. The organization of the book follows the basic pathophysiology of venous disorders with chapters addressing special conditions of common interest such as pelvic congestion syndrome, thoracic outlet syndrome, and May-Thurner syndrome. There is emphasis on novel treatment modalities and emerging technologies through dedicated chapters to anticoagulant agents, emerging modalities to treat superficial venous reflux and venous stent technology. Finally, this book is a melting pot for physicians who have shown dedication and passion to the care of patients with venous disease regardless of specialty and location.The authors are an international panel of vascular experts who trained in vascular surgery, interventional radiology, interventional cardiology, hematology, pulmonology and critical care medicine. Therefore, the book will be of great value to the physicians and trainees in those specialties and to any person interested in developing in depth knowledge of the management of venous diseases.

Contents:

Current Management of Venous Diseases

Editor: Cassius Iyad Ochoa Chaar

Table of Contents

Section I: Clinical Fundamentals

Chapter 1 - Venous anatomy, development, and variations - Joann M. Lohr and Nicolas J. Mouawad

Chapter 2 - Venous physiology and pathophysiology - James Laredo and Byung Boong Lee

Chapter 3 - Diagnostic Imaging for Veins - Fedor Lurie, Jihad Abbass and John H. Fish, III

Chapter 4 - Evaluation of Edema of the Extremity - John H. Fish III and Fedor Lurie

Chapter 5 - Compression Therapy in Venous Disease - Robert R. Attaran and Cassius Iyad Ochoa Chaar

Section II: Venous Insufficiency

Chapter 6 - Clinical presentation of venous insufficiency - Lisa E. Amatangelo and M. Emily Wilcox Cummings

Chapter 7 - Open surgical treatment of superficial reflux - Andreas M. Lazaris and George Geroulakos

Chapter 8 - Laser Ablation for Venous Reflux - Mikel Sadek and Lowell S. Kabnick

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Chapter 9 - Radiofrequency Ablation for Lower Extremity Venous Reflux - John Blebea and Zhamak Khorgami

Chapter 10 - Mechanochemical ablation of superficial veins - Afsha Aurshina and Cassius Iyad N. Ochoa Chaar

Chapter 11 - Endovenous sealing of superficial veins - Roshan Bootan, Tristan R. A. Lane, Ian J. Franklin and Alun H. Davies

Chapter 12 - Sclerotherapy - Kathleen Gibson

Chapter 13 - Treatment of Incompetent Perforating Veins - Eric S. Hager and Joyce Y. Lin

Chapter 14 - Cosmetic approach to varicose veins: the ASVAL technique - Sylvain Chastanet and Paul Pittaluga

Chapter 15 - Strategies to treat venous reflux disease - Andrew M. Abi-Chaker, Priscila Gisselle Sanchez Aguirre and Jose I. Almeida

Chapter 16 - Complications of the treatment of venous insufficiency - Peter F. Lawrence

Chapter 17 - Valve reconstruction for deep venous reflux - Oscar Maleti and Marzia Lugli

Chapter 18 - Pelvic venous insufficiency - Olivier Hartung

Section III: Acute venous thromboembolism

Chapter 19 - Presentation and significance of VTE - Meera Sridharan and Aneel A. Ashrani

Chapter 20 - Prevention of venous thromboembolism - Nirvana Sadaghianloo and Alan Dardik

Chapter 21 - Overview of anticoagulation agents - Saman Doroodgar Jorshery, Afsha Aurshina and Cassius Iyad Ochoa Chaar

Chapter 22 - Superficial thrombophlebitis - Anil Hingorani and Enrico Ascher

A: Deep vein thrombosis

Chapter 23 - Anticoagulation for proximal DVT - Alfred Ian Lee and Eun-Ju Lee

Chapter 24 - Controversies in the diagnosis and management of distal deep vein thrombosis - Helia Robert-Ebadi and Marc Righini

Chapter 25 - Endovascular treatment of deep vein thrombosis - Raja S. Ramaswamy and Suresh Vedantham

Chapter 26 - Surgical thrombectomy for deep vein thrombosis - Faisal Aziz and Emelia Bittenbinder

Chapter 27 - Upper extremity deep vein thrombosis - Suzanne M. Bleker, Noemie Kraaijpoel and Harry R. Buller

Chapter 28 - Venous thoracic outlet syndrome - Kristine Clodfelter Orion and Julie Ann Freischlag

B: Pulmonary Embolism

Chapter 29 - Medical management of pulmonary embolism - Stefano Barco and Stavros V. Konstantinides

Chapter 30 - Catheter directed Thrombolysis of pulmonary embolism - Adham Abou Ali, Efthymios D. Avgerinos and Rabih A. Chaer

Chapter 31 - Surgical management of pulmonary embolism - Jeenah Jung and Pramod Bonde

Chapter 32 - Vena cava interruption - John E. Rectenwald

Chapter 33 - Retrieval of inferior vena cava filters - Anand Brahmandam, Afsha Aurshina and Cassius Iyad Ochoa Chaar

Section IV: Chronic Venous Obstruction

Chapter 34 - Wound care management for venous ulcers - Sheena K. Harris, Dale G. Wilson and Robert B. McLafferty

Chapter 35 - May-Thurner syndrome: diagnosis and management - Brian DeRubertis and Rhusheet Patel

Chapter 36 - Endovascular recanalization of chronic venous obstruction - David L. Gillespie and Micheal Toma Ayad

Chapter 37 - The venous stent: Is it primetime yet? - Arjun Yajaraj and Seshadri Raju

Chapter 38 - Open reconstruction for chronic venous obstruction - Arjun Yajaraj and Peter Gloviczki

Chapter 39 - Hybrid reconstruction for post-thrombotic iliofemoral venous obstruction - Anthony J. Comerota and Zakaria Assi

Chapter 40 - Chronic obstruction of the inferior vena cava - Andrew J. Meltzer and Jordan R. Stern

Chapter 41 - Venous reconstruction in oncologic surgery - M. Libby Weaver, Michael J. Osgood and Ying Wei Lum

Chapter 42 - Superior vena cava syndrome - Jamal Jawad Hoballah

Chapter 43 - Management of Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension - Stuart W. Jamieson