The frequency of venous disease probably surpasses that of heart disease and stroke.
The fallibility of the clinical diagnosis of pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis (DVT) approaches 50% error in both conditions. Because of the serious errors in omission and commission of the clinical diagnosis of venous thrombosis, a variety of noninvasive diagnostic techniques have been developed within the past decade. The purpose of this paper is to analyze these noninvasive venous modalities with more emphasis on what is available in our vascular lab at Charleston Area Medical Center - Charleston Division, West Virginia University Medical Center.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
Hume M., Sevitt S. and Thomas DP: Venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism. Harvard University Press Cambridge, 1970, p. 4.
2.
AbuRahma AF, Boland JP: Selection of high-risk patients for incidental prophylactic IVC clipping. CurrentSurgery35: 143, 1978.
3.
AbuRahma AF, Boland JP, Lawton WE, Kusminsky R.: Long term follow-up of prophylactic caval clipping. The Journal of CardiovascularSurgery22: 550, 1981.
4.
Dalen JE and Dexter L.: Pulmonary embolism. JAMA207: 1505, 1969 .
5.
Dohn K.: Plethysmography during functional states for investigation of the peripheral circulation. Proceedings of the Second International Congress of Physics. Copenhagen, Dansk Fysinrgisk Selskah, 1957, p. 51.
6.
Winsor T. and Hyman C.: Objective venous studies (Insufficiency, obstruction and inflammation) . J Cardiovascular Surg2: 146, 1961.
7.
Barnes RW, Collicott PE, Sumner DS, et al: Noninvasive quantitation of venous hemodynamics in the postphlebitic syndrome. Arch Surg107: 807, 1973.
8.
Barnes RW, Ross EA and Strandness DE Jr: Differnetiation of primary from secondary varicose veins by doppler ultrasound and strain gauge plethysmography. Surg Gyn Obst141: 207, 1975.
9.
Strandness DE Jr and Sumner DS: Ultrasound velocity detector in the diagnosis of thrombophlebitis. Arch Surg104: 180, 1972 .
