The new patient-oriented tools for clinical assessment of pelvic varicose disease
Rustem VILEVICH AKHMETZIANOV, MD, PhD Doctor of Medical Sciences, Cardiovascular Surgeon of the Department of Vascular Surgery, Inter-regional Clinical Diagnostic Center of the Ministry of Health of Russia, Assistant of the Department of Cardiovascular and Endovascular Surgery, Kazan State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of Russia, Kazan, Russia Abstract This article presents a review of patient-oriented diagnostic tools currently used in patients with pelvic varicose veins (pelvic congestion syndrome, PCS), and provides rationale for using disease-specific tools, as highlighted in the international consensus documents on the diagnosis and treatment of PCS. The authors present two original diagnostic tools…