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Ten-year outcomes of a randomized clinical trial of endothermal ablation versus conventional surgery for great saphenous varicose veins

18 September 2024
Randomized clinical trials Vascular
Mohamed AH, Howitt A, Rae S, Cai PL, Hitchman L, Wallace T et al.

Br J Surg 2024; 111: znae195.

Some 206 of the original 280 patients were available for analysis. Both procedures resulted in durable improvements in disease-specific quality of life (P<0.001). Clinical recurrence was lower after endothermal ablation: 37 versus 59 per cent, P=0.005.

Comment: Endothermal ablation has real long term advantages.

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