NCT01976637

Compression Treatment of Superficial Vein Thrombosis

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 80 (actual)
• Sponsor: Medical University of Vienna · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Leg compression is considered the basic treatment for superficial vein thrombosis (SVT). However, its use is more or less based on subjective experience while scientific evidence for its efficacy is lacking. There is one uncontrolled trial reporting improvement of clinical symptoms when patients with SVT were treated with fixed compression bandages. This study evaluates the efficacy of compression stockings (23-32 mmHg) in the treatment SVT of the legs. The investigators hypothesis is that compression treatment is superior to no compression in alleviating disease related clinical symptoms.

Conditions

• Pain
• Erythema
• Thrombus Length
• Quality of Life

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	no compression	no compression stockings worn during the study
DEVICE	compression	compression stockings class II (23-32 mm Hg) worn during the day for up to 3 weeks

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-12-01
• Primary completion: 2013-11-01
• Completion: 2013-11-01
• First posted: 2013-11-06
• Last updated: 2014-01-16