Venous Anatomy
The longest vein in the human body.
What is the Great Saphenous vein?
The preset that needs to be selected on the ultrasound machine for all ABIs.
What is Lower Extremity Arterial?
The number of cycles per second in a sound wave, measured in Hertz.
What is Frequency?
An insurer whose requirements for truncal ablation are 4.5mm or greater and junctional reflux.
What is Aetna?
The CEAP score that indicates a healed venous ulcer.
What is C5?
This sensory nerve, a branch of the femoral nerve, runs alongside the Great Saphenous vein and an be injured during ablation or vein harvest.
What is Saphenous nerve?
The type of flow that is represented as red when performing an ABI.
What is Antegrade?
This ultrasound control allows the sonographer to adjust for signal attenuation at different depths, with the ability to make the near field and far field echoes appear similar.
What is Time Gain Compensation (TGC)?
Requires documentation of a post-Varithena scan before approving sclerotherapy and does not authorize Varithena treatment of the SSV.
What is BCBS IL?
On ultrasound, duplicate veins, deep venous reflux, and enlarged lymph nodes are examples of these.
What are Incidental Findings?
The vein that is formed by the joining of the external and internal iliac veins.
What is the Common Iliac vein?
The degree your angle should be set to for diagnostic spectral doppler images.
What is 60 degrees?
The average velocity of sound in soft tissue.
What is 1540m/s?
A payer that requires proximal thigh reflux for GSV ablation, yet has no minimum vein size for sclerotherapy.
What is United Health Care?
The suggested patient position during Varithena procedures.
What is Reverse Trendelenburg?
Meaning the "middle coat" in Latin, this vein layer contains smooth muscle and elastic fibers, allowing the vein to constrict and maintain tone.
What is Tunica Media?
The waveform that should be added to the ABI report.
What is the most normal?
The term describes the bending of a sound beam as it passes through tissues with different propagation speeds, such as the edge of a vessel.
What is Refraction?
Typically qualified for at the age of 65, they require 4.0mm or greater for sclerotherapy.
What is Medicare?
One of UVVC's core values, it is defined as the ability to invent thigs or solve problems in intelligent new ways.
What is Ingenuity?
Paired deep veins, sometimes referred to as the fibular veins, that run in the deep posterior compartment of the leg and join the posterior tibial veins.
What are the Peroneal veins?
Often seen in diabetics or patients with chronic kidney disease, an ABI of greater than 1.4 suggests this.
What are non-compressible arteries?
When the ultrasound beam encounters a structure smaller than its wavelength, this type of scattering occurs.
What is Rayleigh Scattering?
Offered under the Affordable Care Act, this insurer allows thermal ablation of a Great Saphenous vein as small as 0.1mm.
What is Ambetter?
An "S" word that means temporary loss of consciousness caused by an inadequate blood supply to the brain.
What is Syncope?