Volume 21 - No. 3 - December 2020 In this issue: EDITORIAL THE ELOQUENCE OF SYMBOLS COVID-19, congresses and the dissemination of From Medicine a call to the Community of the scientific information Phlebological World Allegra C Agus GB ORIGINAL ARTICLES Outpatient treatment and prevention of acute hemorrhoids with sulodexide Katorkin SE, Andreev PS, Sotnikov VM Effect of four-layer dressing on venous ulcer Tiwary SK, Choubey KK, Khanna S, Kumar P, Khanna AK Study of quality of life in patients with varicose vein after radiofrequency ablation and ultrasound guided foam sclerotherapy Tiwary SK, Alam S, Sureka P, Kumar P, Khanna AK CASE REPORTS Takotsubo Syndrome induced by sclerotherapy with polidocanol Cifuentes JS, Ulloa JH, Pinto P, Bravo JA, Montenegro AC Recurrent thrombosis: a case report of young patient JAK2+ without myeloproliferative disease and other risk factors. The role of sport activity Sica A, Sagnelli C, Sagnelli E, Fiorelli A, Casale B Foot acrosyndromes in patients with COVID-19: the podiatrist’s approach Secolo IS, Toscano RE, Risso D, Secolo G EDIZIONI MINERVA MEDICA PUBBLICAZIONE PERIODICA QUADRIMESTRALE - POSTE ITALIANE S.P.A. - SPED. IN A. P. D.L. 353/2003 (CONV. IN L. 27/02/2004 N° 46) ART. 1, COMMA 1, DCB/CN - ISSN 1593-232X TAXE PERÇUE ACTA PHLEBOLOGICA AFFILIATED SOCIETIES Association of Vascular Surgeons, Phlebologists Egyptian Venous Forum and Angiologists of Ukraine Georgian Society of Phlebology Bangladesh Vascular Society Hungarian Venous Forum Canadian Society of Phlebology Mexican Academy of Phlebology and Lymphology Chilean Phlebology and Lymphology Foundation Panamerican Society of Phlebology and Lymphology College of Surgeons J. Raymond Tournay Ecuadorean Society of Phlebolymphology Romanian Society of Phlebology and Microcirculation Venous Association of India Founder Editor and Chief Editor Emeritus Claudio Allegra International Union of Phlebology, Rome, Italy Chief Editor Pier Luigi Antignani Vascular Centre, Nuova Villa Claudia, Rome, Italy Associate Editors Imre Bihari Zaza Lazarashvili Semmelweis University College, Budapest, Hungary Chapidze Emergency Cardiovascular Center, Tbilisi, Georgia Larisa Chernukha Sorin Olariu Shalimov’s National Institute of Surgery and Transplantation, Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, Kiev, Ukraine Romania Ayman M. Fakhry Alvaro Orrego Military Academy, Alexandria, Egypt San Sebastian University, Santiago del Chile, Chile Shantonu K. Ghosh Shoaib Padaria Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital, Dhaka, Saifee Hospital, Mumbai, India Bangladesh Pauline Raymond-Martimbeau Eugenio Jiménez Gorena Dallas Noninvasive Vascular Laboratory, Dallas, Texas, USA AVE Medical Center, Monterrey, México Javier A. Serralde Gallegos Ernesto Intriago National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, Universidad de Especialidades Espíritu Santo, Guayaquil, Ecuador Mexico Editorial Board Giovanni B. Agus Mohamed Omar Elfarok University of Milan, Milan, Italy GOTHI General Organization of Teaching Hospitals and Institutes, Leonardo Aluigi Cairo, Egypt Private Villalba Hospital (GVM), Bologna, Italy Jawied Fareed Albert C. Benamou Hemostasis & Thrombosis Research, Laboratories at Loyola, University Pitié Salpêtrière Hospital, Unoversity Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois, USA France Giacomo Failla Janna Bentley University of Catania, Catania, Italy Kelowna General Hospital, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada Bahare Fazeli Oscar Bottini Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina John P. Fletcher Victor Canata Westmead Hospital, University of Sydney, Westmead, Australia National University of Asuncion, Asuncion, Paraguay Emad A. Hussein Joseph A. Caprini Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt Northshore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois, USA Arkadiusz Jawien Patrick Carpentier Collegium Medicum University of Nicolai Copernicus, Bydgoszcz, Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France Poland André Cornu-Thenard Christopher R. Lattimer Saint Antoine Hospital, Paris, France Ealing Hospital and Imperial College London, London, UK ACTA PHLEBOLOGICA Editorial Board Byung-Boong Lee Karel Roztocil George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Mark Malouf Armando Schapira Westmead Private Hospital, Weatmead, New South Whales, Australia Clínica de flebolinfología, Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina Ferdinando Mannello Angelo Scuderi University “Carlo Bo”, Urbino, Italy Santa Lucinda Hospital, Sorocaba, Brazil Armando Manshila Mario Sica University of Porto, Porto, Portugal Ecole Internationale de Sclérothérapie (EIS), Vincennes, Christine Moffat France Glasgow Medical School, Glasgow, UK Carlos Simkin Javier L. Monedero University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina Ruber Internacional Hospital, Madrid, Spain Roberto Simkin Kenneth Myers University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina Victoria Vein Clinic, Melbourne, Victoria Jaroslav Strejcek Kurosh Parsi Center for Dermatologic Angiology, Praha, Czech Republic Sydney Skin and Vein Clinic, Sydney, Australia Viera Stvrtinova Hugo Partsch Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria Wassila Taha Fausto Passariello AlSalam Hospital Mohandessin, Cairo, Egypt Aquarius Diagnostic Center, Naples, Italy Fulvio Tomaselli Szolt Pecsarady San Babila Private Clinic, Milan, Italy Vascular Center, Flor Ferenc Teaching Hospital, Kistarcsa, Hungary Nicola Troisi Jose M. Pereira de Godoy San Giovanni di Dio Hospital, Florence, Italy National Council for Research and Development (CNPq), Jean-François Uhl São José do Rio Preto, Brazil Phlebology Center, Neuilly, France Jan Pitha Jorge H. Ulloa Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia Republic Fernando Vega Rasgado Pavel Poredos Mexican Institute of Phlebology (IMF), Mexico City, Mexico Ljubljana University Medical Centre, Ljubljana, Slovenia Frederic Vin Daniela Radu Department of Angiology and Vascular Laboratory, American Hospital County Emergency Hospital “Pius Brinzeu”, Timisoara, Romania of Paris, Paris, France Sandeep Ray Pandey Mandy Wong Annapurna Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Managing Editor Alberto Oliaro University of Turin, Turin, Italy This Journal is PEER REVIEWED and is quoted in: EMBASE, Emerging Sources Citation Index, Scopus. 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