Radiofrequency-powered segmental thermal obliteration carried out with the ClosureFast procedure : results at 1 year / Denis Creton, Olivier Pichot, Carmine Sessa, T.M. Proebstle, ClosureFast Europe Group

This prospective and multicenter study shows the results at 1 year of radiofrequency-powered segmental thermal obliteration (RSTO) carried out with the ClosureFast procedure. The RSTO clinical and duplex ultrasound imaging results were evaluated at 3 days, 3 months, 6 months, and 1 year. All procedures were carried out on outpatients under tumescent local anesthesia. Among the 295 members who were treated, 289 were reexamined at 3 days, 290 at 3 months, 289 at 6 months, and 220 at 1 year. Occlusion scores were 99.7%, 99.3%, 98.6%, and 96.9% at, respectively, 3 days, 3 months, 6 months, and 1 year. At 3 cm below the saphenofemoral junction, before the procedure, the greater saphenous vein (GSV) diameter was 5.4+/-2 mm (range 2-18). It decreased to 4.5+/-1.7 mm at 3 days, 2.4+/-1.5 mm at 6 months, and 1.3+/-0.9 mm at 1 year. In members reexamined at 1 year, the decrease in diameter of the treated vein compared with the preprocedural measurement was 79% (p<0.001, t-test). At 1 year, in 58% of the cases, duplex ultrasound imaging at mid-thigh level could not show the GSV trunk. Preprocedural pain that was present in 57.5% of the cases decreased to 10.8% of the cases at 3 days and 2% of the cases at 1 year (p<0.001, chi2 test). Among the treated limbs, 70.1% did not present with any postprocedural pain at any time of the follow-up. On the third day, the patients evaluated the mean pain intensity at 0.7+/-1.6 on a visual analog scale of 0-10. During the follow-up, no painful indurations were noticed in 67.7% of the legs. No thromboembolic complications were reported. Paresthesias were observed in 3.4% of the cases. Invalidity clinical score, evaluated at 3.9+/-2 before the procedure, decreased to 3.5+/-1.2 on the third day, 0.9+/-1.5 at 3 months, 0.7+/-1.2 at 6 months, and 0.5+/-1.1 at 1 year. This study confirms the efficacy of RSTO when using ClosureFast, which allows obliteration of the GSV trunk in 97% of cases at 1 year with few side effects and almost no postprocedural pain..

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

29 January 2010

2010

Erschienen:

29 January 2010

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:24

Enthalten in:

Annals of vascular surgery - 24(2010), 3, Seite 360-366

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Creton, Denis [VerfasserIn]
Pichot, Olivier [VerfasserIn]
Sessa, Carmine [VerfasserIn]
Proebstle, Thomas [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Catheter Ablation
Chi-Square Distribution
Chronic Disease
Equipment Design
Female
France
Germany
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Pain, Postoperative
Pain Measurement
Paresthesia
Prospective Studies
Saphenous Vein
Time Factors
Treatment Outcome
Ultrasonography, Doppler, Duplex
Varicose Veins
Vascular Surgical Procedures
Venous Insufficiency
Young Adult

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Umfang:

7

doi:

10.1016/j.avsg.2009.09.019

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

185268660X