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Chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) is a form of venous disease that occurs when veins in your legs are damaged. As a result, these veins can’t manage blood flow as well as they should, and it’s harder for blood in your legs to return to your heart.
Detailed information on chronic venous insufficiency, including causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and full-color anatomical illustrations.
Chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) is a condition affecting the veins in your legs. At first, CVI causes very few, if any, symptoms and can be hard to spot. As CVI progresses, it...
Chronic venous insufficiency is when the blood flow to the legs is insufficient. Learn more about what happens when the veins in your legs stop working right.
Venous insufficiency is most often caused by either blood clots or varicose veins. In healthy veins, muscles pump a continuous flow of blood from the limbs back toward the heart....
Objectives: Assess the various etiologies and risk factors for chronic venous insufficiency. Identify the clinical features of chronic venous insufficiency. Select the appropriate management approach for chronic venous insufficiency.
Chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) stems from persistent ambulatory venous hypertension. Frequent causes of venous hypertension include insufficient muscular pumping, malfunctioning venous valves (reflux), and venous obstruction, which leads to a cascade of morphological, physiological, and histologic abnormalities.
Causes. Diagnosis. Treatment. Coping. Venous insufficiency is a condition in which the veins have problems sending blood from the legs back to the heart. The blood vessels in your legs have one-way valves in them that prevent blood from flowing backward.
Most cases of venous insufficiency are chronic. In this article, we look at the types, causes, and treatments for venous insufficiency.
Chronic venous insufficiency signs and symptoms include increasing leg pain, fatigue, and heaviness with prolonged standing, associated with dilated tortuous veins. More severe cases exhibit progressive skin changes, venous stasis dermatitis, lipodermatosclerosis, and frank ulceration.