Correlation Between Various Definition of Superficial Venous Reflux and Clinical Presentation of Venous Disease

Abstract

There have been various ways of reporting venous reflux in chronic venous insufficiency (CVI). Some vascular laboratories tend to describe venous reflux with categorical presence of reflux and some use grading method by measuring duration of venous reflux in seconds. The primary objective of study is to find out which method of describing venous incompetency in superficial venous system at great saphenous veins (GSV) and saphenofemoral junction (SFJ) would best correlate with clinical presentation of venous disease using CEAP (clinical manifestation, etiologic factors, anatomic distribution, pathophysiologic dysfunction) classification.