Major causes include: decreased sympathetic response to position changes and the loss of reflex vasoconstriction; decreased vascular tone; excessive venous pooling in the lower limbs; and decreased ...

However, in patients with clinical findings suggestive of lower extremity DVT, venous compression US might avoid the need for CT. Furthermore, contraindications to CT limit its usefulness ...

THE term "varicose veins" customarily suggests, immediately, and almost exclusively, abnormal dilatations and tortuosities of the saphenous veins of the lower ... venous drainage of the upper ...

Background Lower limb cellulitis and deep vein thrombosis share clinical features and investigation of patients with cellulitis for concurrent DVT is common. The prevalence of DVT in this group is ...

The symptoms include those of right heart failure predominantly dyspnea on exertion.Lower extremity dependant ... inspiration due to the increased venous return to the right heart resulting ...