Understanding Venous Reflux the Cause of Varicose Veins and Venous Leg Ulcers

Mark Whiteley is a consultant venous surgeon and founder of The Whiteley Clinic, now in London, Guildford and Bristol. He is also a visiting Professor at the University of Surrey and an internationally recognised expert in venous disease and endovenous surgery.Mark qualified in 1986 from St. Bartholomew's Hospital, completed the Bristol and Portsmouth surgical rotations before becoming a lecturer in surgery at the University of Bath followed by Oxford University. He was appointed as a consultant vascular surgeon at The Royal Surrey County Hospital before leaving and becoming 100% venous surgeon in 2005.With his colleague Judy Holdstock, he introduced endovenous surgery into the UK by performing the first endovenous operation in the country on 12th March 1999. Mark founded The Whiteley Clinic in 2001 and invented the TRLOP operation with Judy Holdstock the same year. He founded The College of Phlebology in 2011 and runs an annual international veins meeting in London, and founded the Leg Ulcer Charity - to empower patients to find a cure and to teach health care professionals that most leg ulcers can be cured without long tern dressings and bandages. Mark has written this book and edited another book on veins; has written 15 chapters on veins in textbooks; has over 110 peer-reviewed research papers and has won multiple international and national prizes for his work in veins. He is regularly invited to meetings around the world to give guest lectures on venous diagnosis and treatments, or to chair or moderate sessions and sits on the international committee of the American Venous Forum. In 2017 he was given an award by Publons for being in top 1% of medical reviewers as a peer-reviewer for venous papers.Committed to education, Mark runs the EVLT (endovenous laser treatment) International Academy for Angiodynamics 4 times per year since 2012 and runs courses, work experience, summer research fellows, extended research fellowships and PhD students.He won a KTP grant from the UK government to set up a research department - performing confidential research for companies to advise them on how to optimise their vein treatments and to do his own research to ensure the efficacy of treatments used at The Whiteley Clinic as part of The Whiteley Protocol.Mark is regularly featured in the national media in the UK: he has been recommended by Tatler for the last 10 years. He has had multiple appearances on TV including - "Embarrassing Bodies", "Harley Street", "Don't ask the Doctor" as well as being featured in featured in national newspapers and magazines regularly.

• 1 - The venous system of the lower limb2 - Pressure in the venous circulation at rest3 - Functional anatomy relating to the venous system of the legs4 - The venous pump of the lower limb5 - Valve failure and venous reflux (venous insufficiency)6 - `Venous hypertension’ - an obsolete term7 - Inflammation in venous reflux disease (chronic venous insufficiency)8 - Pressure, flow and inflammation - how they relate in venous reflux disease9 - Varicose veins - the `good guys’10 - Patterns of reflux - passive and active phase reflux11 - Conclusion

Muhammad Salim; 5.0 out of 5 stars: Simple and well written. The book is easy to read. Concepts are explained in a simple yet concise way. I recommend this book to anyone who needs a good start in understanding venous reflux Disease. Kenneth U. Ekechukwu. 5.0 out of 5 stars: Superb new text on the block. Excellent, concise, and easy to read. Bold and truthful in debunking misleading, confusing time-honoured traditions and concepts. A firm foundation for understanding the basics of venous disease of the loer limbs and a reliable intro of the problem for the beginner and the dogmatic old horse. May benefit from some grammatical editing to remove distracting errors. IDMansell. 5.0 out of 5 stars: Understanding venous reflux: I'm a Tissue VViabilitynurse and was recommended this book by a vascular consultant at a conference in Manchester. I've been teaching district nurses and care home staff how to assess & manage venous leg ulcers for over 15 years. Part of the course includes pathophysiology of venous disease being a great believer in treat the cause not the symptom. That's been blown out of the water by the revelations in this book. It's easy and concise to read with good systematic approach to understanding venous reflux. "venous hypertension" becoming an obsolete term is initially difficult to assimilate, but the clarity of the text and research appears irrefutable. Although judging from the book there are still those out there who prefer to do just that. Chapeter 7 & 8 are the clinchers and worthy of careful analysis . The preceding chapters lead you in with simple explanation of the venous system and how it functions. Good use of simple diagrams support and consolidate the text. Some of the myths associated with venous hypertension are also refuted. Male vs female incidence obesity & pregnancy are disputed as well as other established so-called facts precipitating venous disease. I would recommend this book as does the author if you're any way involved in dealing with patients with venous ulcers both to correctly inform your patients and support staff in the assessment and management of venous leg ulcers. "once a leg ulcer patient always a leg ulcer patient" but not it would appear with venous hypertension but with venous reflux.