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Endovascular Venous Interventions

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Reversal of underlying treatable venous insufficiency and obstruction is an important component of venous wound management. Open surgical procedures have increasingly been replaced by imaging-guided minimally invasive endovenous techniques. Endovenous thermal or chemical vein ablation can selectively close incompetent veins, while venous thrombolysis and stenting can restore flow in segments with post-thrombotic obstruction. These modern vein treatments, performable through needles or small catheters through micro-incisions, facilitate treatment of venous disease without requiring surgical incisions in a tissue bed compromised by chronic inflammation and poor wound healing. This chapter will provide an overview of the role of endovenous therapies in the treatment of venostasis ulcers.

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Fan, CM. (2018). Endovascular Venous Interventions. In: Orgill, D. (eds) Interventional Treatment of Wounds. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66990-8_16

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