title: Urgent situations in phlebology--variceal bleeding and it's treatment.
abstract: The aim of this study was to compare the therapeutic results of patients whose bleeding points were sutured and patients treated with compression sclerotherapy. In the years 1983-2000, 56 patients with profuse bleeding from varicose veins were treated. In a subgroup of patients with compression sclerotherapy--Fegan's way (32 patients), bleeding wound was healed completely within 7 days on average (5-13). All ulcers have healed within 2 months. The presented approach used is a surgical procedure (stitch, removal of large varicosities). Fegan's technique of compression sclerotherapy, with a detergent sclerosing solution (S.T.D.), enables to complete sclerotherapy of all pathological reflux points during 1-2 visits not only with good results, but also as a one-day surgery, keeping the patient work (Ref. 7).
authors.affiliation: 1st Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University, University Hospital, Bratislava, Slovakia.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Labas
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cambal
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ohradka
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004630:Emergencies; D005260:Female; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015911:Sclerotherapy; D014647:Varicose Ulcer / Q000150:complications; D014648:Varicose Veins / Q000150:complications*