A comprehensive review of the diagnosis and treatment of nutcracker syndrome

Mert Dumantepe, MD Florence Nightingale Hospital, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Istanbul, Turkey. Cuneyd Öztürk, MD Florence Nightingale Hospital, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Istanbul, Turkey. Vincenzo Ardita, MD, PhD Vein Center, Vascular Surgery Unit, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy Ferdinando B. A. Valente, MD Vein Center, Vascular Surgery Unit, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy Domenico Baccellieri, MD, PhD Vein Center, Vascular Surgery Unit, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy Alejandro Rodriguez Morata, MD Department of Angiology and Vascular Surgery, Hospital Quirónsalud, Málaga, Spain ABSTRACT Nutcracker syndrome (NCS) describes the symptomatic compression of the left renal vein…

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A comprehensive review of the history, pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of iliac vein entrapment syndrome, also known as May-Thurner syndrome

Domenico Baccellieri,MD, Associate Professor Vein Center, Vascular Surgery Unit, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy Ferdinando B. A. Valente, MD Vein Center, Vascular Surgery Unit, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy Vincenzo Ardita, MD, PhD Vein Center, Vascular Surgery Unit, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy Mert Dumantepe, MD, PhD Florence Nightingale Hospital, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Istanbul, Turkey ABSTRACT May-Thurner syndrome (MTS), also known as iliac vein entrapment syndrome, is caused by extrinsic compression of the left common iliac vein—most often by the right common iliac artery—leading to venostasis and potential development of deep vein thrombosis…

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Endovenous management of venous leg ulcers

Raju S, Kirk OK, Jones TL. J Vasc Surg Venous Lymphat Disord. 2013;1:165-173. Reviewed by: Ramesh K Tripathi and Himanshu Verma Narayana Institute of Vascular Sciences, Bangalore, India This is an important paper highlighting the various modalities of treatment that come into play in the treatment of venous leg ulceration due to chronic venous insufficiency. The authors apparently were able to follow-up on 192 limbs that had failed conservative therapy and then underwent endovascular treatment that included 39 endovenous laser ablation (ELVA ) of superficial axial veins, 99 iliac vein stents and 59 using both procedures in combination. The numbers…

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