A journal article was submitted detailing a study which compared the rates of venous wound healing between two techniques of superficial vein closure, venaseal and closurefast.A retrospective review was performed of patients who had undergone closure of truncal veins within a 5-year defined time.119 patients were included in the study.119 limbs treated where 68 were treated with closurefast and 51 with venaseal.The technical success rate was 100% for all veins ablated as confirmed by the post-procedure duplex ultrasound examination.No device-related complications were reported.No postoperative dvts occurred in our patient cohort.Wound healing was reported to be significantly shorter in the venaseal group as compared with the closurefast group (43 vs 104 days respectively).Two patients undergoing rfa had developed a post-procedure limb infection, both treated with antibiotics.Ulcer recurrence was reported as 19.3% overall with 22.1% in the closurefast group and 13.7% in the venaseal group.No repeated ablations were necessary because of recanalization of the target vein, and no treatment failures were identified during the study period.The author concludes that both closurefast and venaseal are safe and effective treatments to eliminate truncal venous insufficiency.Venaseal showed a superior time to wound healing compared with closurefast in both large and small ulcers.Venaseal-treated ulcers healed an average of 2.5 months more quickly than did the rfa-treated ulcers.
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