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Year :2014 Month : May-June Volume : 3 Issue : 2 Page : 1 - 4

Varicose Veins: Predisposing Factors and Patient Outcome After Surgery

Correspondence Address :
Vikas Deep Goyal, Sanjeev Sharma, Atul Mahajan, Ram Kishan Abrol, Vishav Chander, Pritesh Maheshwari,
Dr. Vikas Deep Goyal,
Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular
Surgery, Dr. RPGMC Kangra at Tanda (H.P)-176001, India.
Phone: 09736843656, E-mail: vigoyal77@yahoo.com
Introduction: Background: Retrospective analysis of risk factors associated with varicose veins and results of surgical treatment over a period of two years.

Methods: From February 2012 to January 2014, 22 patients underwent surgery for varicose veins. Their mean age, sex, body mass index, symptomatology, associated diseases, surgical technique, wound infection, hospital stay and complications have been evaluated.

Results: Twenty two patients underwent surgery for varicose veins. Mean age of the patients in the study was 40.23 ± 11.67 years, Mean body mass index was 21.60 ± 3.18 and mean hospital stay was 7.26 ± 2.51 days. Majority of patients in this study were males, non-obese and of young and middle age group. There was no operative mortality and no major complication. Three patients had minor wound infection. Follow up was completed for 81.81% patients and mean follow up time was 1.13 ± 0.61 years. Significant number of patients in this study were smokers and alcoholic.

Conclusion: Female sex, obesity and old age were not found to be the predisposing factors in this study in contrast to the western literature. This study highlights that predisposing factors vary from region to region and between different races. Smoking and alcoholism were found to be the predisposing factors for varicose veins in this study. Conventional surgery for varicose veins is a very safe procedure with negligible mortality and morbidity rates.
 
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