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Figure56.20 CT image of a crushed right iliac stent. In this case, the
kissing Nitinol stents should have been extended higher into the cava to prevent this asymmetry. Furthermore, upon rethrombosis, the stent system should have been revised immediately.
F. DISTAL THROMBUS: e presence of acute and chronic tibiopopliteal thrombus can threaten the long-term patency of proximal reconstructions. We  rmly believe that treatment of the entire limb is key to technical and clini­cal success. Complete understanding of the calf veins and popliteal in ow is important. Duplex and pedal phlebog­raphy are used to provide this information. In the event
of thrombotic obstruction,  ow-directed delivery of a thrombolytic agent can reduce calf and popliteal throm­bus (Figures56.21, 56.22).  e saphenous vein is intermit­tently compressed against the malleolus and/or condyle, to redirect venous  ow into the deep veins.  e dedicated tourniquets, designed for this purpose, e ectively promote thrombolysis of thrombus in the calf and popliteal segments (Tiger Surgical, Inc., Portland,OR).
G. IVC FILTERS: It is not generally thought to be necessary to place a caval  lter while performing catheter-directed thrombolysis.  e incidence of PE has been remarkably low, as the thrombus does not fragment without undue manipulation. However, mechanical throm­bectomy for removal of acute thrombus poses the risk of embolism. In this case, temporary  lters have been placed and subsequently removed. Occluded IVC  lters can be safely and e ectively bypassed. We have passed single and kissing Wallstents through and alongside all types of occluded  lters without complication (Figures56.6, 56.13,
56.23). Once the exchange guide wire has traversed this area of occlusion, serial balloon dilation will expand the tissue and allow stent deployment. Mechanical thrombec­tomy and thrombolysis can be e ectively and safely used to restore  ow in acutely thrombosed IVC bearing  lters.
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In our iliocaval series, successful recanalization of chroni­cally occluded  lters has also been performed with remark-
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able long-term patency.
Raju and Neglen encountered
twenty- ve patients with occluded IVC  lters.  eir results
Figure56.21 Contrast venogram shows acute tibial thrombus prior to  ow-directed thrombolysis.  e diagram shows placement of the DVT
tourniquet, which was speci cally designed for lytic infusions. Compression of the saphenous vein against the malleolus promotes  ow into the deep venous system. In this manner, e ective delivery of the thrombolytic drug can dissolve acute thrombus.
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Figure56.22 Photograph of a patient with both ankle and knee
tourniquets in place for  ow-directed lysis. Adisc is positioned  uoroscopically to strategically compress the super cial vein against thebone.
also demonstrate the feasibility and low morbidity of stent-
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ing through a thrombosed  lter.
Stent complications are
quite rare, but they can happen.
H. ILIAC STENTS AND PREGNANCY: Young women undergoing stent procedures during child-bearing age were understandably concerned about whether or not an iliac stent would be an issue with pregnancy. On the con­trary, treating a DVT or preventing thrombosis by stenting a May- urner compression mitigates against thrombosis during pregnancy and a er delivery. Anticoagulation is managed by a hematologist or high-risk pregnancy special­ist. In our experience, four women have delivered seven healthy children without complication. Hartung reported
that eight pregnancies occurred in six patients in whom a self-expanding stent had been previously placed for iliac compression.  e recommendation to sleep on the right side and continue lovenox throughout the conception
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period and pregnancy parallel our experience.
CLINICAL EXPERIENCE
In 2006, Raju reported a series of 120/4,217 (2.8%) patients with obstructive lesions of the IVC identi ed among patients with chronic venous insu ciency examined
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between 1997 and 2005.
 e majority of the lesions were infrarenal (82%), 14% (14/97) were suprarenal but below the diaphragm, and four cases extended into the superior aspect of the intrahepatic IVC. In 93% of cases, lesion involved the common iliac segment, but in 7%, the lesion was limited to the IVC. Most of the IVC lesions 85/99 (86%) were stenotic (>60%) and not occlusive.  ere were fourteen occlusions in which seven of the attempted recana­lizations were not successful.  e CEAP clinical classi ca­tion for the stented limbs included C3 (37%), C4 (26%), C5 (7%), and C6 (19%).  e seven limbs with unhealed ulcers were found to have residual untreated re ux, which was predominantly in axial veins.  ere were nineteen limbs with active ulcers that underwent stenting. In twelve limbs (63%) the ulcers healed and remained healed at 24months. Re ux was present in seventeen, involving both deep and super cial systems. Only two of these limbs underwent concurrent endovascular treatment of saphenous re ux. Although the other limbs had identi ed re ux, correction of the obstruction, alone, allowed healing of the ulcer. Stented patients experienced signi cant clinical improvement. A er
Figure56.23 ree-image sequence showing baseline cavagram and subsequent reconstruction in a patient with IVC occlusion. Note the double
barrel stents are extended parallel to the occluded  lter.
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3.5years, the reduction in pain and swelling was 74% and
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51%, respectively. At 24months, cumulative primary and primary assisted patency were 58% and 82%, respectively.  is is a valuable series, and the authors are to be commended for extensive experience and thoughtful review. Ninety per­cent of patients had symptomatic CVI, while 10% were essentially asymptomatic, including the four patients who had no idea there was a venous lesion prior to presenting with acute thrombosis distal to the IVC. Basically, the utili­zation of a complete venous investigation, including pelvic duplex, pressure testing, and transfemoral venography with IVUS uncovers a lot more venous pathology than anyone ever estimated. Whereas this degree of diagnostic investiga­tion is not available in many institutions, the authors leave little doubt that venous obstruction is more prevalent than previously thought.
 rombolytic therapy was not used except in treating acute DVT. Whereas we use catheter-directed thromboly­sis to open and so en chronic thrombotic occlusions, the Raju and Neglen perform their procedures without throm­bolysis. For the most part, thrombolysis was not required to pass a wire. However, lytic therapy may have facilitated di cult (unsuccessful) recanalization and diminished the incidence of residual stenoses that compressed stents and resulted in reintervention. Most of the lesions in this series were stenotic and, therefore, did require the opening of a primary channel.  e authors make several technical points that Ihave similarly emphasized. First, complete stenting of diseased segments promotes reestablished continuity of deep venous  ow, which is imperative to stent patency. Understenting should be discouraged in view of the obser­vation that tributary  ow passes through Wallstent inter­stices and traversing the inguinal ligament with overlapping, self-expanding metallic stents is well tolerated. Moreover, neither the initial venographic appearance, the extent of the lesion, nor the duration of the symptoms is a predictor of success or failure of guide-wire passage through a venous obstruction. Some chronic lesions are almost impossible and some are very easy.  ere must be genetic issues we do not yet recognize.
S U M M A R Y
Endovenous therapy represents a signi cant component in the treatment of chronic venous insu ciency due to thrombosis.  e clinical options for treatment of resid­ual obstruction, following DVT, now favor reconstruc­tion of the native axial veins with self-expanding metallic stents.  e evolution of the tools and techniques is ongo­ing, as the majority of the procedures have been adapted from arterial interventions. Because the venous system is characterized by lower pressure and lower  ow state, compared with the arterial system, manipulations within veins are thrombogenic, and good technique is essential.
Appreciating that stents represent a form of bypass and, therefore, require good in ow as well as out ow to remain patent is fundamental. O en, this is not obvious to the inexperienced physician, who underestimates the role of residual thrombus in distal veins or the importance of a stent extending into the IVC by one centimeter. Chronic venous insu ciency is that “something old” that seems to be a renaissance topic in the midst of new pharmaceuti­cal discoveries and the emerging  eld of endovenous sur­gery. Hopefully, continued innovation, multidisciplinary e orts, and clinical evidence will all support our e orts to better prevent DVT, to treat acute DVT in a timely man­ner, and, overall, reduce the incidence of postthrombotic venous insu ciency.
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5. Jost CJ , Gloviczki P , Cherry KJ Jr, etal. Surgical reconstruction of iliofemoral veins and the inferior vena cava for nonmalignant occlu­sive disease , J Vasc Surg. 2001 . 2 : 320–328 .
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10. Razavi MK , Hansch EC , Kee ST , Sze DY , Semba CP , Dake MD . Chronically occluded inferior venae cavae:Endovascular treatment , Radiology. 2000 . 1 : 133–138 .
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13. Vedantham S , Vesely TM , Sicard GA, etal. Pharmacomechanical thrombolysis and early stent placement for iliofemoral deep vein thrombosis , J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2004 . 15 : 565–574.
14. Allie DE , Hebert CJ , Lirtzman MD , etal. Novel simultaneous com­bination chemical thrombolysis/rheolytic thrombectomy therapy for acute critical limb ischemia: e power-pulse spray technique, Catheter Cardio Inte. 2004 . 63
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17. Raju S , Neglen P . High prevalence of nonthrombotic iliac vein lesions in chronic venous disease:Apermissive role in pathogenicity , J Vasc Surg. 2006 . 44 : 136–144 .
18. Neglén P , Hollis KC , Olivier J , Raju S . Stenting of the venous out­flow in chronic venous disease:Long-term stent-related outcome, clinical, and hemodynamic result , J Vasc Surg. 2007 . 46 : 979–990 .
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POPLITEAL VEIN ENTRAPMENT
Seshadri  Raju
opliteal vein entrapment is a rare clinical entity. Anatomic popliteal vein compression, however, can be
P
demonstrated by imaging techniques in 27 to 42% of
asymptomatic individuals with a 34% incidence of bilateral-
1,2
In the frequency of the anatomic lesion and the rarity
ity. of the clinical expression, the entity perhaps resembles tho­racic outlet syndrome. Compression of the popliteal vein is infrequently (±10%) associated with companion arterial compression, even though the very  rst case reported by Rich and Hughes in 1967 was. indistinguishable from other forms of chronic venous disease (CVD) and easily applicable diagnostic testing is lacking. Diagnosis currently depends on awareness of the entity and elimination of other causes of chronic venous insu ciency. Invasive monitoring of dynamic popliteal venous pressure with ankle maneuvers in suspected cases may be speci c.
INCIDENCE
 e estimated incidence is less than 4% of all cases of CVD, probably much less. Sporadic case reports
2,16
series
Contrary to expectations, the disease is not con ned to the young; there appears to be no age or sex predilection. Like other forms of CVD, common symptoms and signs are swelling, pain, and stasis skin changes including ulceration. Limb swelling extending above the knee joint probably rules out the condition as the primary pathology. Venous claudication may be present in some but not all. Cutaneous hyperpigmentation may extend more proximally beyond the gaiter area in some patients. Isolated popliteal valve re ux when symptomatic should arouse clinical suspicion of entrapment, as the former by itself is seldom symptom­atic. Entrapment may result in popliteal vein thrombosis.
can be found in the literature.
CLINICAL FEATURES
3
Clinical features are o en
2
4–15
and two
2
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I N V E S T I G A T I O N S
Popliteal vein compression on ascending venography is sen­sitive, but not speci c. Popliteal vein compression should be demonstrated on active plantar  exion; passive dorsi ex­ion may also reproduce the lesion in some (see Figure57.1).  e site of compression is variable (high popliteal 11%, mid popliteal 39%, low popliteal 18%, and di use 32%), thus suggesting varied compressive mechanisms.
Like venography, duplex with ankle maneuvers can also demonstrate popliteal vein compression without any infer­ence to causality of symptoms. compression with ankle maneuvers is present in about half of the limbs without clinical features of arterial insu ­ciency. Demonstration of arterial compression does not sig­nify functionally signi cant associated venous compression.
Magnetic resonance imaging features of the gastrocnemius muscle, which is frequently a part of the compressive mechanism, and it can help rule out other causes of compression such as the Baker’s cyst.
Abnormalities on ambulatory venous pressure measure­ment (pedal vein) and out ow fraction by occlusive pleth­ysmography may be suggestive, but these tests are neither sensitive nor speci c. tion fraction and residual volume measurements with air plethysmography(APG).
Dynamic popliteal vein pressure measurements (see Figure57.2) with ankle maneuvers appear to be diagnostic and useful in assessing outcome a er entrapment release.
 e most frequent compressive mechanism is the gastroc­nemius muscle due to abnormalities in the origin of the medial head (see Table 57.1). Postnatal extension of the medial head of the gastrocnemius muscle from the medial femoral condyle to involve portions of the adjacent femoral sha is a normal event; excessive migration appears to result
2
Similar comments apply to ejec-
P A T H O L O G Y
1
Associated popliteal artery
18,19
may display abnormal
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2
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Figure57.1 Popliteal vein compression with ankle maneuvers:mid
popliteal (le ). Discrete lesions at high and low popliteal locations as well as di use lesions (not shown) alsooccur.
Table57.1 PATHOLOGICAL FEATURES IN THIRTY
CASES OF ENTRAPMENT UNDERGOING RELEASE
COMPRESSIVE ENTRAPMENT MECHANISM NUMBER
Gastrocnemius medial head anomalous origin Additional third head of gastrocnemius Gastrocnemius lateral head origin from medial
Condyle Soleus sling  ick perivenous fascia Abnormal course of vascular bundle lateral to the
Lateral head Unknown
PATHOLOGICAL CHANGES IN
THE POPLITEAL VEIN
Sclerosis Prestenotic Dilatation Poststenotic Dilatation Postthrombotic Changes
*One case associated with atrophic lateralhead. **Two saccular aneurysms. †Associated with other entrapment mechanisms. (From Reference 2, with permission)
18*
1 5
3
13†
2
l
NUMBER
13 1
4**
2
in compression of the vein. Compression by other muscles such as the lateral head of the gastrocnemius or the soleal sling are relatively rare. Compression of the vein by the tib­ial nerve may occur rarely.
 e compressed vein segment o en becomes sclerosed and stenotic. Both prestenotic and poststenotic dilata­tions occur, occasionally large enough to be classi ed as aneurysms. Athick perivenous fascia attached to the gas­trocnemius muscle is an integral part of the compressive mechanism, which may explain the varied location of vein compression noted on venography.  e entrapment mecha­nism likely involves prolonged spasm of the vein initiated by external compression by adjacent muscle. Elevation of the popliteal vein pressure persists long a er cessation of active muscle contraction (see Figure 57.3). Entrapment
2
may eventually lead to popliteal valve re ux
20
tor incompetence.
Unlike in popliteal artery entrapment,
A B
and perfora-
anatomic course variations of the popliteal vein are relativelyrare.
S U R G I C A L T R E A T M E N T
 e posterior approach 20 or the medial approach 2 to the popliteal fossa may be used.  e posterior approach is pref­erable if anatomic course variations of the popliteal vascula­ture are suspected.
The medial head of the gastrocnemius is taken down from the bone with particular attention to the muscle extension beyond the condyle. This extension may be large
11
enough to be described as a third head.
As recurrences with reattachment of the muscle can occur, resection of the medial head may be preferable to simple detachment of the muscle from its origin. Other compressive elements
Figure57.2 Calf exercise with percutaneously inserted Millar Probes. (A)  e 2-Fr catheters have tip-mounted pressure transducers. (B)  e catheter
tip is positioned in the popliteal vein under  uoroscopy.
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Figure57.3 Simultaneous pressure tracings in the dorsal foot vein and popliteal vein with calf exercise. Note elevation in popliteal pressure and
decrease in foot venous pressure a er exercise. Popliteal pressure elevation persists for 100 seconds a er cessation of exercise before slowly declining to baseline.
(From Reference 2, with permission).
when present should be lysed as well. The vein should be cleared of its perivenous sheath and tributaries over a gen­erous 10-cm length centered on the compressive point. Aneurysmal and stenotic segments should be resected and the vein repaired without any hint of tension, using a saphenous graft if necessary. The popliteal valve should be repaired if refluxive, particularly when skin changes are present. Axillary vein transfer may be required if pri-
2
mary valve reconstruction is not possible.
Perioperative antithrombotic prophylaxis including use of low molecu­lar weight heparin, meticulous hemostasis, and closed drainage are necessary to achieve clean primary heal­ing without local complications that may predispose to recurrenc e .
CLINICAL RESULTS
Excellent clinical results with relief of pain, swelling, and stasis skin changes have been reported particularly
Popliteal Vein
Dorsal Vein
% Increase
Unchanged
% Decrease
Figure57.4 Elevated popliteal vein pressure a er exercise decreases
a er entrapment lysis. Dorsal vein pressure (post exercise) shows little change.
(From Reference 2, with permission).
Pre-Op Post-Op
80
60
40
20
0
–20
–40
–60
–80
–100
when the diagnosis is firmly established on the basis of dynamic popliteal vein pressure measurements (see
2
Figure57.4).
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VALVULOPLASTY IN PRIMARY VENOUS
INSUFFICIENCY
DEVELOPMENT, PERFORMANCE,
AND LONGTERM RESULTS
Robert L. Kistner , Elna Masuda , and Fedor  Lurie
idespread interest in the occurrence of deep vein re ux, its clinical e ects, the technique of
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valve repair followed the demonstration in 1968 that direct surgical repair of the femoral venous valve was feasible.  is chapter will review the background on which the  rst repair was based and highlights that have evolved in this  eld since the  rst repair was reported in1968.
 e  rst valve repair 1 was the result of curiosity in a clinical case of swelling, pain, and work disability in a patient who su ered le leg deep venous thrombosis (DVT) following a high voltage electricalburn.
Two years following the injury this patient was unable to return to work due to swelling and pain in the extremity. An ascending venogram revealed the unexpected  nding of patency of the entire deep venous system with traces of postthrombotic scarring in the popliteal vein and the lower thigh portion of the femoral vein. Since this  nding did not o er an adequate explanation of the patient’s symptoms (swelling above the knee), it was reasoned that the problem was due mainly to re ux rather than obstruction, and this led to the concept of descending venography to determine the valvular status in this extremity.  e descending veno­gram showed full axial re ux of contrast from the common femoral vein (CFV) down through the popliteal vein and into the calf. It also showed a well-formed but incompetent valve at the upper end of the femoral vein (formerly termed the super cial femoral vein). Other valves were identi ed in the distal femoral vein. Evidence of postthrombotic scarring in the popliteal and super cial femoral veins wasnoted.
direct valve repair, and the long-term results of
THE FIRST VALVEREPAIR
With the diagnosis of axial re ux as the cause of the patient’s symptoms, it was elected to treat the patient a er the teachings of Robert Linton saphenous and perforator re ux, followed by control of the deep vein re ux by interrupting the upper end of the femo­ral vein just distal to the origin of the deep femoral vein in the groin.  e patient previously had the saphenous vein stripped.  e perforators of the calf were interrupted 3 d prior to exploration of the femoral vein, and the femoral vein was approached as a separate procedure.
Prior to surgery on the femoral vein, the  nding of a normal-appearing valve in the upper femoral vein on the venogram resulted in the decision to explore the valve to see if it might be repairable prior to ligation of the femoral vein. When this exploration at surgery revealed a morphologi­cally normal vein and valve structure with the single  nd­ing of elongation of the valve cusp, it was elected to attempt repair of this defect by shortening the leading edge of the two cusps. When this was done the valve appeared normal and it resulted in a totally competent valve upon closure of the vein. It was decided to accept this newly competent fem­oral valve as replacement for the originally intended ligation of the femoral vein.  e patient was managed with full hep­arinization for the  rst postoperative week, then switched to Coumadin.
 e clinical result was dramatic relief of his symptoms from the  rst postoperative day when he spontaneously remarked that his leg felt relieved of its congestion. He remained free of unilateral symptoms in this extremity for the remaining 13years of hislife.
 is successful surgical repair of an incompetent femo-
ral vein valve in 1968 led to a series of seventeen repairs that were the substance of the  rst national report of the pro­cedure in 1975.
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 is series consisted of advanced venous
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by controlling greater
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ing venography to identify instances where severe clinical venous insu ciency was associated with axial deep vein re ux rather than deep obstruction.
BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE
OF NONTHROMBOTIC REFLUX
DEEP VEIN DISEASE
Except for the publications of Gunnar Bauer in the 1940s, 4 clinically important deep vein re ux disease had been attrib­uted to postthrombotic disease. Bauer was a brilliant investi­gator surgeon who worked in a small hospital in Mariestad, Sweden, in the mid-1900s. He experimented with venog­raphy in patients suspected of having venous disease and devised a method of performing descending venography, described in 1948.  ese venograms were performed with a needle in the CFV and with the patient in the 45-degree erect position. Static  lms were obtained to document  nd­ings. Bauer was the  rst to report nonthrombotic cases with high-grade axial re ux in the deep veins, and to associate these cases with advanced stages of clinical venous insu ­ciency. He treated these cases with popliteal vein ligation and reported early clinical success, but later follow-up of some of these cases by his peers in Sweden discredited the long-term value of popliteal vein ligation.
Bauer’s descending venography resulted in activity in
other sites around the world, as re ected by reports that
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appeared in the early 1950s.
Confusion arose from these reports when it was found that deep re ux was associated with symptoms in some cases, whereas other cases were asymptomatic. As a result of this confusion with descending venography and the report that popliteal vein ligation was a questionable procedure, this entity, which Bauer called “idiopathic nonthrombotic re ux,” apparently lost cred­ibility as an important cause of venous insu ciency in the 1950s and lay dormant until venous valve repair surfaced in1975.
 e description of the re ux entity that Bauer termed
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“idiopathic nonthrombotic venous insu ciency”
is iden­tical to the present-day primary venous insu ciency.  is entity is fundamentally di erent from postthrombotic dis­ease since there is no element of gross in ammation or scar­ring of the vein or valve, or intraluminal obstruction with wall thickening as found in the postthromboticcases.
TREATMENT OF DEEP VEIN
REFLUX PRIOR TO1968
 ere was great interest in the aggressive management of the chronic venous disease (CVD) leg prior to 1960, which is well summarized in the papers of Robert Linton
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of Boston from 1938 to 1953.
Linton refers to the epic
work of Homans,
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who drew attention to the importance of the perforator veins and concentrated on the excision of the diseased skin and scar tissue in the lower leg. Homans’s understanding of the pathophysiology of CVD is amazing in view of the fact that he had no imaging studies to visu­alize the leg veins and depended entirely on clinical acu­men to divine the relationship between the skin changes of CVD and the venous system. He came to understand that these changes were related to deep vein disease, which was attributed to postthrombotic changes in the veins through clinical examination alone. Linton embraced and ampli ed this thinking and devised a multipronged surgi­cal e ort to control venous hypertension by removing the saphenous vein, radically eliminating perforator veins in the calf, ligating the super cial femoral vein, and removing a large segment of deep fascia in the posterior calf to facili­tate lymph drainage of the extremity. During the 1950s he was an intense advocate of aggressive surgical treatment for advanced venous insu ciency, essentially all of which he attributed to postthrombotic venous disease. His papers emphasize the importance of re ux in the genesis of post­thrombotic sequelae as he describes the progression of the originally obstructive thrombosis to a re uxive postthrom­botic state a er recanalization of the thrombosed chan­nels has occurred. Although his papers cite the work of Gunnar Bauer, there is little or no mention of ascending or descending venography or of nonthrombotic venous re ux disease in Linton’s diagnostic workup of the postphlebitic patients.
EARLY INFLUENCE OF
VALVULOPLASTY ON THE
STUDY OF VENOUS DISEASE
 e realization that there is an entity of primary re ux dis­ease as a cause of axial re ux separate from postthrombotic re ux stimulated investigation into the frequency of the two conditions, their diagnostic criteria, and the implica­tions their identi cation would have on management.
Among the questions that stimulated the interest of investigators were the need to know the frequency with which axial primary deep vein re ux occurred, the amount of damage it could contribute to the extremity, and the near- and long-term results of its repair. With the ability to repair re ux in the super cial, perforator, and deep veins, the concept of total repair of re ux was possible, and the question of which conditions would warrant this more aggressive treatment required investigation. For the  rst time, thorough knowledge of the pathophysiology in each segment of the venous tree had become of practical import because each could be repaired.  is ultimately became a strong stimulus to revise the diagnosis of venous insuf­ ciency into an objective image-driven study of the entire deep venoustree.
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