Musculo-venous "pump" of the foot in patients with varicose disease
Gladkikh, V.G.; Sukovatykh, B.S.
Vestnik Khirurgii Imeni I. I. Grekova 137(12): 56-61
1986
ISSN/ISBN: 0042-4625 PMID: 3824805 Document Number: 278367
Methods of rheovasography, phlebotonometry and phlebography of the foot were used for studying the musculo-venous "pump" of the foot in 75 patients with varicose disease. It was found that the latter is responsible for up to 30% of the venous return of blood from lower extremities in walking. Dysfunction of the foot musculo-venous "pump" makes its appearance in patients with varicose disease at the decompensation stage with complicated course of the disease. The preoperative examination of the patients must establish the functional state of this structure, the correction of the alterations found being included in the operation volume.