How does radiofrequency ablation of the saphenous system compare with standard high ligation and stripping? The authors conducted a randomized controlled trial with 90 patients in each group.

4.1 In a randomised controlled trial (RCT) of 117 patients with great or small saphenous vein incompetence treated by mechanochemical ablation or radiofrequency ablation, mean pain scores (measured on ...

and the vein wall temperature is maintained at 85°C. Evidence indicated that radiofrequency treatment resulted in immediate occlusion of 90% to 100% of long saphenous veins. In one study, patients who ...

Measures of clinical success were similar among the groups, but successful ablation of the main trunks of the saphenous vein was less common ... reflux of either the great or the small saphenous ...

Randomization was performed with the use of a minimization algorithm that included center, age (<50 years or ≥50 years), sex, reflux in the great or the small saphenous veins, and varicose veins ...

Laser technology and radiofrequency ablation (RF ... The patient underwent closure of the leakage in the great saphenous vein through laser technique. He was fully mobile within 20 minutes after the ...

Running from the top of the foot (dorsum) and up the inner sides of the leg, the great saphenous vein is the body’s ... like sclerotherapy or thermal ablation to help circulation.

Ultrasound confirmed great saphenous vein insufficiency and within four weeks of having the vein sealed with endovenous radiofrequency ablation, the ulcer was healed. Veins are blood vessels that ...

It found that a recently approved adhesive treatment for chronic venous insufficiency is comparable to radiofrequency ... arms had identical great saphenous vein closure rate of 96.8% with no ...

Stripping procedures have been used by generations of surgeons and can be applied to nearly every patient with varicosities of the greater saphenous system. The study only had short-term results ...