2019 Volume 30 Issue 3 Pages 279-283
Patients with varicose veins of the lower extremities with osteoarthritis of the knee often experience improvement in knee joint symptoms after endovascular treatment. We considered that it was important to decide the operation indication of lower extremity varices, to know the correlation between the two diseases in the treatment of varicose veins. To investigate the postoperative improvement of knee symptoms related to varicose veins with knee osteoarthritis, we conducted a questionnaire survey. The subjects were thirty-five patients with varicose veins complicated with knee osteoarthritis for a total of 12 months from December 2014 to May 2015 and from October 2018 to March 2019: 7 were male and 28 were females. We classified knee osteoarthritis according to the grading scale, and compared the improvement of knee symptoms after endovenous thermal ablation. The degree of improvement was lower as the knee grade was higher. However, the improvement was observed in all knee osteoarthritis grades, and as a whole, twenty five patients (71.4%) have experienced improvement of subjective symptoms. For patients with knee osteoarthritis, we strongly recommend surgical treatment of the varicose veins regardless of the progression of knee grade.
