Tag: volume-13-issue-2-2020

Fibrosis and Venous Disease

Fibrosis: An overlooked complication of venous disease impacting surgical success CHRONIC SWELLING is a common complication of venous disease, signifying both venous and lymphatic insufficiency, and is referred to as phle...Continue Reading


Intersections in the Vein Treatment World: Stripping, Catheters, and High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU)

To paraphrase a famous rock anthem by Saxon1 (and to change the year slightly): “Where were you in ’99 when the dam began to burst?”2 Several allusions to popular music are embedded in this text (in bold...Continue Reading


Intersections in the Vein Treatment World: Stripping, Catheters, and High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU)

To paraphrase a famous rock anthem by Saxon1 (and to change the year slightly): “Where were you in ’99 when the dam began to burst?”2 Several allusions to popular music are embedded in this text (in bold...Continue Reading


Lipedema and Lipolymphedema: New ICD-10-CM Codes Proposed to Enhance Diagnosis, Treatment, and Research

IN JUNE 2020, the Lipedema ICD-10-CM Committee, with support from the American Vein & Lymphatic Society (AVLS), submitted an application to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to establish new ICD-10-CM...Continue Reading


Lipedema and Lipolymphedema: New ICD-10-CM Codes Proposed to Enhance Diagnosis, Treatment, and Research

IN JUNE 2020, the Lipedema ICD-10-CM Committee, with support from the American Vein & Lymphatic Society (AVLS), submitted an application to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to establish new ICD-10-CM...Continue Reading


Morbidly Gleeful and Gleefully Morbid

"It’s good to see you. It’s good to see anybody,” says Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, age 76, in the Martin Scorsese documentary Shine a Light. Richards should be dead many times. He has tried mos...Continue Reading


Morbidly Gleeful and Gleefully Morbid

"It’s good to see you. It’s good to see anybody,” says Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, age 76, in the Martin Scorsese documentary Shine a Light. Richards should be dead many times. He has tried mos...Continue Reading


Remote Access, Remote Education: Collaboration in Medicine

MEDICINE IS A discipline built on a spirit of collaboration that continually advances because it learns from itself. The mantra, “See one, do one, teach one,” describes the transfer of knowledge inherent to m...Continue Reading


Remote Access, Remote Education: Collaboration in Medicine

MEDICINE IS A discipline built on a spirit of collaboration that continually advances because it learns from itself. The mantra, “See one, do one, teach one,” describes the transfer of knowledge inherent to m...Continue Reading


See the Invisible with a New, Non-contact Screening Tool for Venous Insufficiency

Introducing a new, non-contact screening tool for venous insufficiency The medical use of thermography is, amazingly, ancient. As far back as 400 BC, physicians commonly applied a thin coat of mud to a patient’s bod...Continue Reading