INTERNATIONAL ANGIOLOGY

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Organo Ufficiale dell'International Union of Angiology, affiliata a Central European Vascular Forum, European Board of Phlebology, European Venous Forum, Latin American Venous Forum, UEMS Multidisciplinary Joint Committe on Phlebology, VAS - European Independent Foundation in Angiology/Vascular Medicine
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pISSN 0392-9590

eISSN 1827-1839

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Chief Editor

Armando Mansilha
University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

Associate Editors

Sergi Bellmunt
Hospital General Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain

Steven Black
Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospital, London, UK

Daniel Brandão
University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

Nuvo V. Dias
Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden

Sergio Gianesini
University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

Barbara Rantner
Ludwig-Maximilian University Hospital, Munich, Germany

Assistant Editor

Joel Sousa
University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

Language Editors

Yung-Wei Chi
Davis Vascular Center, University of California, Sacramento, California, USA
CHINESE

Maxim Shaydakov
CMU Health, Saginaw, Michigan, USA
RUSSIAN

Jorge H. Ulloa
Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
SPANISH

Editorial Board

Alpesh Amin
University of California, Irvine, California, USA

Pier-Luigi Antignani
Nuova Villa Claudia, Rome, Italy

Enrico Ascher
New York University, New York, New York, USA

Niels Bækgaard
Gentofte Hospital, Hellerup, Denmark

Rupert Bauersachs
Klinikum Darmstadt GMBH, Darmstadt, Germany

Jean-Pierre Becquemin
Private Hospital Paul d’Egine, Ramsay Group, Champigny Sur Marne, France

Oscar Bottini
Clinicas Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Kürşat Bozkurt
University of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Corradino Campisi
University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

Patrick Carpentier
Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France

Attilio Cavezzi
Eurocenter Venalinfa, San Benedetto del Tronto, Ascoli Piceno, Italy

Nabil Chakfé
University Hospital of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

Laurent Chiche
Hôpital Européen Marseille, Marseille, France

Roberto Chiesa
Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy

Gert J. De Borst
University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Marianne De Maeseneer
University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Sebastian Debus
University Heart Center Hamburg, Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Hans-Henning Eckstein
Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany

Jonas Eiberg
University of Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Jawed Fareed
Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois, USA

José Fernandes E Fernandes
University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

Mauro Gargiulo
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

George Geroulakos
Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece

Athanasios D. Giannoukas
University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

Peter Gloviczki
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

Manjit S. Gohel
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK

Frederico B. Gonçalves
Hospital Santa Marta, Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Central, Lisbon, Portugal

Roger M. Greenhalgh
Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, London, UK

Jean-Jérôme Guex
Paris University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

Claudine M. Hamel-Desnos
Hôpital Privé Saint Martin, Ramsay Générale de Santé, Caen, France

Stéphan Haulon
Hôpital Marie-Lannelongue, Le Plessis-Robinson, France

Emad Hussein
Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Mihai Ionac
University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, Romania

Michael J. Jacobs
University Hospital Aachen, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Houman Jalaie
European Vascular Center Aachen-Maastricht, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Arkadiusz Jawien
Collegium Medicum University of Nicolai Copernicus, Bydgoszcz, Poland

Stavros K. Kakkos
University of Patras Medical School, Hippocrates Ave, Rio, Patras, Achaia, Greece

Igor B. Koncar
Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia

Nicos Labropoulos
Stony Brook University Hospital, Stony Brook, New York, USA

Byung-Boong Lee
George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA

Christos D. Liapis
Athens Medical Centre, Athens, Greece

Armando C. Lobato
ICVE (Instituto de Cirurgia Vascular e Endovascular de São Paulo), São Paulo, Brazil

Ian Loftus
St George’s Vascular Institute, London, UK

Marzia Lugli
Hesperia Hospital, Modena, Italy

Jordi Maeso Lebrun
Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain

Oscar Maleti
Hesperia Hospital, Modena, Italy

Ferdinando Mannello
University “Carlo Bo”, Urbino, Italy

Fabrizio Mariani
Angiomedica Vein Clinic, Colle di Val d’Elsa, Siena, Italy

Germano Melissano
Vita-Salute” University, Scientific Institute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy

Luís Mendes Pedro
University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

Salvatore Novo
AOUP Paolo Giaccone di Palermo, Palermo, Italy

Gustavo Oderich
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA

Pedro Pablo Komlos
Clinica de Varices, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Kurosh Parsi
Sydney Skin and Vein Clinic, Sydney, Australia

José Péréira Albino
Hospital de Santa Marta, Lisbon, Portugal

Pavel Poredoš
Ljubljana University Medical Centre, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Thomas M. Proebstle
University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Eberhard Rabe
University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Vincent Riambau
University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Evgeny Shaydakov
Vascular Surgery Clinic, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Francesco Spinelli
University of Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy

Viera Stvrtinova
Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

Ramesh K. Tripathi
Narayana Institute of Cardiac Sciences, Bangalore, India

Nicola Troisi
San Giovanni di Dio Hospital, Florence, Italy

Jorge H. Ulloa
Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

Tomasz Urbanek
Angiology and Phlebology, Katowice, Poland

Frank Veith
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Hence Verhagen
Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Eric Verhoeven
Paracelsus Medical University, Nuremberg, Germany

Fabio Verzini
University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Michael Wyatt
Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Founder and Chief Editor Emeritus

Panayotis Balas

Chief Editor Emeritus

Andrew Nicolaides
International Union of Angiology, Nicosia, Cyprus

Editors Emeriti

Claudio Allegra
Internation Union of Phlebology, Rome, Italy

Peter C. Maurer

Managing Editor

Alberto Oliaro
University of Turin, Turin, Italy