Varicose Veins May Be Clue To Pelvic Pain
A Utah radiologist says 16 percent of women with varicose leg veins simultaneously
had ovarian varicose veins, often a source of chronic pelvic pain.
Carl Black,
in a paper presented Tuesday at a meeting of the Society of Interventional
Radiology, said of 160 female patients evaluated for lower extremity venous
reflux, also known as varicose veins, 16 percent also presented with symptoms
and findings of pelvic congestion syndrome -- a cause of chronic pelvic
pain.
Of these, 92
percent were found to have venous reflux in the ovarian veins, for which
embolization was performed. Sixty-three percent reported relief or significant
reduction in pain in both the pelvis and the lower extremities following
embolization alone, while 91 percent reported satisfaction following subsequent
comprehensive treatment of any remaining sources of lower extremity venous
reflux.
Pelvic congestion
syndrome is a result of varicose veins in the pelvis, similar to varicose
veins in the legs, he said.
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