[State of the crural musculo-venous "pump" in varicose veins]

Abstract

With the use of ultrasound flowmetry, retrograde popliteal and distal ascending phlebography, rheovasography and phlebotonometry, the functional state of ++musculo-venous "pump" of a crus in 53 patients with varicose disease was studied. The two degrees of impairement in the function of this formation, which are typical of complicated and non-complicated course of the disease, were established. Pronouncement of the impairement in function of musculo-venous "pump" of a crus directly depends on a degree of incompetence of the valves of the crural deep veins with vertical reflux of blood through them.