Percutaneous interventions for varicose veins

摘要

Chronic venous disease plays a significant role in medical referral in today's world. Incompetence of the saphenofemoral junction (SFJ) with reflux into the greater saphenous vein (GSV) is one cause of chronic venous hypertension, which may lead to the development of varicose and telangiectatic leg veins. For years, surgical ligation and stripping of the GSV has been the gold standard for treatment of SFJ incompetence. This article reviews percutaneous interventional therapy for this condition as an alternative to surgery. Interventional radiologists should be involved directly in the clinical assessment and therapeutic management of symptomatic varicose veins.