Anno: 2016 Lavoro: 3580-ANGY Mese: February titolo breve: CHIVA: hemodynamic concept, strategy and results Volume: 35 primo autore: FRANCESCHI No: 1 pagine: 8-30 Rivista: INTERNATIONAL ANGIOLOGY Cod Rivista: International Angiology , Copyright © 2016 @EDIZIONI MINERVA MEDICA International Angiology 2016 February;35 (1):8-30 ORIGINAL ARTICLE CHIVA: hemodynamic concept, strategy and results Claude FRANCESCHI 1, Massimo CAPPELLI 2, Stefano ERMINI 3, Sergio GIANESINI 4* Erika MENDOZA 5, Fausto PASSARIELLO 6, Paolo ZAMBONI 4 1Centre Marie Therese Hopital Saint Joseph, Paris, France; 2Private Practitioner, Florence, Italy; 3Private Practitioner, Grassina, Flor- ence, Italy; 4Vascular Diseases Center, University of Ferrara, Italy; 5Venenpraxis, Wunstorf, Germany; 6Diagnostic Centre Aquarius, Napoli, Italy *Corresponding author: Sergio Gianesini, Vascular Disease Center, University of Ferrara Italy, Via Aldo Moro 8, 44124 Loc Cona, Ferrara, Italy. E-mail:
[email protected] ABSTRACT The first part of this review article provides the physiologic background that sustained the CHIVA principles development. Then the venous networks anatomy and flow patterns are described with pertinent sonographic interpretations, leading to the shunt concept description and to the consequent CHIVA strategy application. An in depth explanation into the hemodynamic conservative cure approach follows, together with pertinent review of the relevant literature. (Cite this article as: Franceschi C, Cappelli M, Ermini S, Gianesini S, Mendoza E, Passariello F et al. CHIVA: hemodynamic concept, strategy and results. Int Angiol 2016;35:8-30) Key words: Venous insufficiency - Hemodynamics - Saphenous Vein - Ultrasonography, Doppler, Duplex. HIVA is a French acronym for “Cure conservatrice sequently suppressing the pressure overload by tar- Cet Hemodynamique de l’Insuffisance Veineuse en geted ligations that are customized on each specific Ambulatoire” (Conservative and Hemodynamic treat- reflux pattern.