A new method for the assessment of venous insufficiency in primary varicose veins using near-infrared spectroscopy

Abstract

NIRS is useful for accurately assessing ambulatory venous dysfunction in patients with primary varicose veins.

Monitoring tissue oxygenation during exercise with near infrared spectroscopy in diseased populations – A brief review

“…Patients with PVO have been also evaluated (Agu et al, 2004;Hosoi et al, 1997;Yamaki et al, 2006). In an interesting study Yamaki et al (2006) investigated patterns of venous insufficiency and changes in calf muscle HHb levels measured by NIRS in patients with acute deep vein thrombosis, from 1 to 12 months after treatment.…”

Randomised clinical trial, observational study and assessment of cost-effectiveness of the treatment of varicose veins (REACTIV trial)

“…Of the other classifications reviewed, all were felt to be unsatisfactory as they required special investigations, [174][175][176][177] related specifically to recurrent varicose veins 178 or provided no measures of the extent of varicosities or of a distinction between those AK or BK. 89,179…”

Assessment of lower extremity venous function using foot venous pressure measurement

“…A classi®cation of chronic venous insuf®ciency (CVI) was proposed by an International Consensus Committee associated with the American Venous Forum in 1995 1 . This classi®cation was based on Clinical, Etiologic, Anatomic and Pathophysiologic data (CEAP), and allowed a more accurate description of CVI as well as uniform reporting of data 2,3 .…”