Spanish Phlebology outlines the roadmap for the treatment of venous diseases in the 21st century.

-Congress will host the presentation of the consensus of Endovenoso laser of the Spanish chapter of Phlebology, pioneer in Europe, and the clinical guide to sclerotherapy

-venous pathology covers a wide field of action that will from unsightly varicose veins until the Venosa thromboembolic disease, with its greater clinical consequence: pulmonary embolism (PE), entity that on many occasions is difficult diagnostic and studies with a mortality rate of 3-6 patients / 10000 habitantes-año

-Spain in die every year by pulmonary embolism 23,000 people, which makes this disease the leading cause of avoidable death hospital

Granada, 2011-April around 150 specialists in the field of the Phlebology address the new challenges of the specialty in the 21st century as part of the nineteenth Congress national of the chapter Spanish of Phlebology which will start on Thursday7 April 2011, at the hotel Abade Nevada Palace in Granada. The Congress, which will address the disease deep thromboembolic in territories border as central themes – Gynecology, Pediatrics and cancer – and pelvic venous disease, will welcome the presentation of the consensus of Endovenoso laser of the Spanish chapter of Phlebology, pioneer in Europe, and the clinical guidelines of sclerotherapy.

Scientific meeting, which has international enhancement, trazará the road map for the treatment of venous diseases in the 21st century and will be addressed, as ensures Vicente García Róspide, President of the Organizing Committee, tracks current and controversial that surely will encourage the scientific debate ”. It is not one minor matter. The epidemiology of chronic venous insufficiency affects 10% to 25% of the adult population, which is to say that in Spain there are 2.5- 3 million patients with varicose veins, 650,000 with sequels postrombóticas and 250,000 patients with venous ulcers. Another very interesting ”, qualifies the expert is compatible with chronic venous insufficiency symptoms that 68 per cent of patients who attend primary care consultations for any reason, ”.

The venous pathology covers a wide field of action ranging from the banal pathology, represented by unsightly until the pulmonary embolism (PE) varicose veins, entity that on many occasions is difficult diagnostic and studies with a mortality rate of 3-6 patients / 10000 habitantes-año, which means 23,000 patients die every year for this cause in Spain. This fact is important because the EP is the first cause of avoidable death hospital.

It refers to the deep vein thrombosis (DVT), Vicente Garcia Róspide says it’s the third most common cardiovascular disease after ischemic heart disease and stroke. Its incidence is 1 / 1000 inhabitant per year and, in the case of elderly population, the percentage increases to 1 / 100 ancianos-año, which means that in Spain there are 60,000 cases annually ”

despite the prophylaxis of DVT ”, emphasizes the expert, its incidence does not decrease for reasons such as the increase in life expectancyincrease in the number of cases of cancer, more aggressive surgery in elderly patients, hospital high early without continuing prophylaxis and increase in the number of invasive vascular hospital procedures ”.

In regards to the news of the Congress, García Róspide recalls that during the same will discuss pelvic venous disease, very little known and studied entity, even by own specialists. What’s new in the diagnosis of this disease with ultrasound and techniques of photography, as well as new indications and therapeutic techniques will be showcased. Similarly ”, continues, will discuss new disease thromboembolic Venosa (ETEV) in the so-called territories border, i.e. of the developments in diagnosis, prophylaxis and treatment in different specialties who also face this disease, such as Hematology, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatricsInternal medicine, oncology and primary care ”.

At the same time the Congress will review the latest in endovascular treatment of pathology Venosa laser and radiofrequency with foam and the recent advances in the prophylaxis and treatment of the Venosa thromboembolic disease, as for example the appearance of new oral anticoagulants requiring no controls analytical newspapers as the Sintron ”.

In regards to the presentation of the consensus of Endovenoso laser of the Spanish chapter of Phlebology, pioneer in Europe, the Vice-President of the Spanish chapter of Phlebology and coordinator of the study, Vicente Ibáñez, analyze aspects related to this technique of endovenous lasera surgical strategy for the treatment of varicose veins. In the beginning, there is no limitation of diameter for the treatment of this type of inadequacies with the endovenous laser, except for those characteristics of the varicose condition imposed ”, said the expert.

Endovenous laser technique requires be careful with the employed power ” to avoid operation, rare disease. Also, this technique has sufficient accuracy to exclude certain venous segments with which avoid possible complications in other techniques, which involve little aesthetic scars ”.