The first experience with endovascular stenting of the iliac veins in patients suffering from post-thrombophlebitic disease.

: This paper describes the results of the first experience with endovascular stenting of the iliac veins in patients suffering from post-thrombophlebitic disease. During 11 months, the patient with a history of segmental venous thrombosis and involvement of the left iliac veins received conservative treatment which included phlebotropic therapy and elastic compression. Despite these measures the patient demonstrated the symptoms of venous insufficiency such as edema, and pains in the left lower extremity. In addition, control ultrasonography and radionuclide examinations revealed chronic occlusion of the left iliac veins. In view of this circumstance we performed endovascular dilatation and stenting of the iliac veins. The postoperative period was uneventful. After two months the pains in the left lower extremity and its edema were fully removed. Control radionuclide phleboscintigraphy demonstrated complete patency of the left iliac veins. So, endovascular stenting is an effective and safe modality for the treatment of the occlusive forms of post-thrombophlebitic disease.