RESUMO

An investigation, which goal is to evidencing AV fistulas in patients with a complicated postthrombotic syndrome, as well as to determinate the efficacy of noninvasive methods used for the study of AV fistulas in such patients, is presented. So, patients with a complicated postphlebitic syndrome interned into the Instituto de Angiología were studied. Twenty-five patients were included in the study, 9 of these patients (36%) had arteriovenous fistulas, arteriographically evidenced. Haemodynamic study do not support the evidence of such communications.

Assuntos

Fístula Arteriovenosa/etiologia , Artéria Femoral , Veia Femoral , Síndrome Pós-Flebítica/complicações , Fístula Arteriovenosa/diagnóstico por imagem , Artéria Femoral/diagnóstico por imagem , Veia Femoral/diagnóstico por imagem , Humanos , Úlcera da Perna/diagnóstico por imagem , Úlcera da Perna/etiologia , Síndrome Pós-Flebítica/diagnóstico por imagem , Radiografia