Ensaio clínico randomizado sobre elastocompressão prolongada após ecoescleroterapia com espuma em pacientes com excesso de peso

• Autor(a) principal: Gomes, Cristiane Vilaça Campos
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFS
• Texto Completo: https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/3783
• topic: Ciências da saúde; Escleroterapia; Varizes; Ultrassonografia Doppler; Obesidade; Espuma; Meias de compressão; Insuficiência venosa; Sclerotherapy; Varicose veins; Ultrassonography, Doppler, Duplex; Obesity; Foam; Compressiona stocks; Venous Insufficiency; CIENCIAS DA SAUDE

Chronic venous disease (CVD) of the lower extremities is a high prevalence disease in general population and is associated with great morbidity. Patients with body overweight are more likely to present themselves with more severally symptoms and are challenging for conventional surgical treatment. The advent of ultrasound guided foam sclerotherapy has broaden the possibility of treatment for these patients. The association of long-term elastic compression after the procedures continues to show conflicting results. Objectives: This study aims to evaluate the changes in the therapeutic response of foam sclerotherapy when using the long-term elastic compression in overweight patients. Method: In this randomized trial the lower limbs were randomly allocated to use or not elastic compression after insufficient venous treatment and submitted to one or two sessions of ultrasound guided sclerotherapy. The evaluations were performed after 3 weeks and 3 months considering as primary outcome the occlusion of the treated venous segment and as secondary outcome the absence of blood reflux in the segment. Results: 131 lower’s limbs were treated: 70 submitted to long-term elastic compression and 62 not. There was no statistic difference between the group’s characteristics. A total of 187 sessions of foam sclerotherapy, being 131 primary interventions and 56 reinterventions, were performed on the entire sample. The number of sessions was greater in the group submitted to long-term elastic compression (p = 0,64). The average foam volume used were slightly higher in the group without long-term elastic compression (p=0,27). The assessment of the primary and secondary outcome showed no difference in the therapeutic response between the groups after 3 weeks and 3 months evaluating the safenofemoral junction (p = 0,47 and p = 0,99) and saphenous magna vein (p = 0,59 and p = 0,26). For the tributaries the success rates were higher after 3 months for the patients submitted to long-term elastic compression (p = 0,0018). Conclusion: The long-term elastic compression did not interfere in the therapeutic response in patients with body overweight in the main venous trunks. The long-term elastic compression had higher success rates in the tributaries. In addition, the elastic compression seems to be associated to a lower foam volume for treatment.