Compression and surgery: indications and limits in patient with PAOD

Patients undergoing surgery for varicose disease of the lower limb are generally treated with elastic compression. Nevertheless, in surgical practice, there are no mandatory indications concerning the type of compression to perform and its duration. Particular attention must be paid when it is present a concomitant chronic obstructive disease. We performed an evaluation of elastic compression tolerability on 10 patients with varicose veins (CEAP C2) and PAOD (stage IIa) and calculated, for each of them, Winsor Index, Actual Claudication Distance and recovery time without and with elastic compression. Compression therapy did not influence statistically significantly Winsor Index. Compression therapy was well-tolerated by 9 of 10 patients.