[Role of the musculovenous "pump" in draining the subcutaneous veins in varicose disease of the lower extremities]. / Rol' myshechno-venoznoi "pompy" v drenirovanii podkozhnykh ven u bol'nykh varikoznoi bolezn'iu nizhnikh konechnostei.

The two-system phlebotonometry of lower extremities in 50 patients with varicose disease enabled the authors to make a conclusion about the great role of the duration of that phase of diastole when the blood runs from superficial veins into deep ones promoting the evacuation of the congested blood. This phase was found to be considerably shorter and even to disappear completely in patients at the decompensation stage. The drainage function of the musculo-venous "pump" is disturbed in patients with the varicose disease of the lower extremities and the degree of its insufficiency is in direct relation with the degree of the disease.

[Evacuation function of a musculovenous "pump" of the leg in varicose veins of the lower extremities]. / Evakuatornaia funktsiia myshechno-venoznoi "pompy" goleni u bol'nykh varikoznoi bolezn'iu nizhnikh konechnostei.

The investigation of average time of transport of radionuclide along the venous system of lower extremities was used by the authors to assess the evacuation function of the musculo-venous "pump" of the leg in 10 healthy people and 50 patients with varicose disease of lower extremities. The direct relation between the degree of incompetence of the musculo-venous "pump" and the degree of the varicose disease speaks of its obvious pathogenetical role in the development of venous pathology.