Compression therapy in the treatment and prevention of chronic venous diseases: what's new?

Abstract

Due to high prevalence of chronic venous diseases that develop in 2/3 of the adult population, this pathology can now be considered a disease of civilization. What is worrying is that over the past few decades there has been a tendency for rejuvenation of these diseases. Thus, chronic venous diseases of the lower extremities are an extremely urgent medical and social problem. Compression therapy is the gold standard for the prevention and combination treatment of every patient with chronic venous diseases in the practice of a modern specialist. Nevertheless, due to improvement of diagnostic methods and the greater availability and variety of minimally invasive treatment methods, there are different kinds of statements about the role and place of compression therapy under present-day conditions. In our interview with Professor Vadim Yu. Bogachev, a leading specialist in phlebology, Doctor of Medical Sciences, the Russian Federation Government Prize winner in Science and Technology, we ask him to share his own clinical experience and give his professional opinion on medical compression garments in the treatment of venous diseases of the lower extremities.