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STUDY OF CLINICAL EVALUATION OF VARICOSE VEINS OF LOWER LIMB INCLUDING COLOUR DOPPLER STUDY

Gourav Saxena, P. R. Bayes, Sabir Husain

Abstract


Introduction: Varicose veins are a common condition that the current paper elaborates the features of the condition in a local Indian population.

Material & Methods: Over a three years period all admitted patients to a R.D. Gardi Medical College, Ujjain, M.P. of varicose veins were evaluated for demographics, clinical manifestations, treatment.

Results: This study reveals that the disease is more prevalent during the active adult life in their 3rd and 4th decades and males were more affected. The occupations needing prolonged standing and use of violent muscular efforts is found to be a contributing or precipitating factor for varicose veins. Hereditary factors may play an important role in the development of varicose veins. 13% of patients had a family history of varicose veins occurring in close relatives. Majority of patients presented to the hospital for their various symptoms. The commonest symptoms in the study were prominent swellings in the lower limb and pain. Majority of the patients had saphenofemoral incompetence (52%) followed by saphenopopliteal incompetence (22%) and remaining with perforators incompetences.

Keywords


Varicose veins, Lower limb, Colour doppler study, Clinical evaluation, Pathology, Clinical manifestations.

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