[Classification of varices with Doppler ultrasonography mapping. Clinical and hemodynamic correlation]

The authors report their experience concerning the outpatient echo Doppler mapping of peripheral venous circulation in the lower limbs. Out of a total of 240 patients examined, 190 showed monolateral venous insufficiency and 50 bilateral. These results were correlated to the age of the patients and showed that saphenous pathology tended to affect the entire vein in elderly patients, whereas only partial damage was observed in young patients. Varices seemed to appear with the first signs of the insufficiency of collateral veins before signs of saphenous insufficiency became manifest.