Muñoz MJA, Jaimes ML

Language: Spanish
References: 7
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: The use of endovenous laser in saphenous veins covers internal saphenous, lesser saphenous, varicose packages and perforator veins. Objective: To show our experience in our first year in the treatment of venous insufficiency with en dovenous laser.
Material and methods: A total 112 extremities operated of January to December of the 2006. All the patients were operated in an operating room under anesthesia, making tie in their saphenousfe moral junction and later ablation of internal saphenous, perforator vein, varicose packages and les ser saphenous. The patients were handled in ambulatory form with a hospital stay smaller to 24 hours.
Results: Extremities could completely made the procedure in form in endovenous form in the extre mities, age average of 46.6 years, in the 3.6% extremities we had open the ankle to introduce the laser; complications infection (0.9%), neuritis temporal (10.7%) and pigmentation (4.5%), 75% of the com plications were in the first operated extremities. These complications were solved in a 88.8% in the first month of the surgery.
Conclusions: The endovenous laser surgery for the venous insufficiency has many aesthetic and functional advantages for the patients, but it requires a curve of learning and good handling of ultra sound.

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