SURGICAL TREATMENT OF COMPLICATED FORMS OF CHRONIC VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY IN LOWER LIMBS (REVIEW ARTICLE)

Abstract

Venous diseases of the lower limbs that are accompanied by the development of trophic ulcers are among the medical and social challenges. The vast number of patients is in working age, from 30 to 65 years old. Severe forms of the disease are registered in 27% of the cases; active or healed trophic ulcers are diagnosed in 12.9 % of cases. At present special attention is being paid to the effective surgical treatment of the pathology, to the introduction of the latest surgical interventions, which provide complete radicalism about the causes of trophic ulcers of venous genesis and ensure the maximum cosmetic effect. The aim of this work is to analyze the scientific literature on using the latest surgical techniques in the treatment of venous pathology in patients with trophic ulcers of lower extremities to promote improving the existing and elaborate new surgical interventions in terms of this pathology. Nowadays surgical treatment of patients with chronic venous insufficiency of the lower extremities, especially in case of trophic leg ulcers can be considered as the stage of the integrated treatment of venous trophic disorders. Modern surgical interventions differ in the methods, techniques and tools used, but provide the maximum cosmetic effect and complete radicalism regarding the causes of chronic venous insufficiency. Correction of pathological venous-venous reflux is the main method of eliminating venous hypertension, which underlies the progression of chronic venous insufficiency and promotes the development of trophic disorders, including the ulcers formation. The etiological cause of venous trophic ulcer is the appearance of pathological reflux, which occurs in the superficial, deep and perforating veins and, accordingly, the place of surgery should be those venous segments in which the pathological process is diagnosed. The operation can be performed simultaneously or in two stages: first, the vertical venous-venous reflux is eliminated, followed by the correction of the horizontal reflux. When using modern minimally invasive technologies, adequate and complete correction of venous blood flow in the affected limb is performed simultaneously producing no serious tissue damages to avoid cosmetic effect and to lessen postoperative period. Thus, the analysis of the scientific literatures has shown the unity of views on the strategy of surgical treatment of varicose trophic ulcers that involves the elimination of vertical and horizontal reflux, but the absence of views unity on tactical approaches in solving these issues.