Ultrasound‐guided foam sclerotherapy vs SFJ ligation and stripping (HL/S): Technical success
Ultrasound‐guided foam sclerotherapy (UGFS) may leads to lower technical success (< 5 years) compared with SFJ ligation and stripping (HL/S) (low certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Ultrasound‐guided foam sclerotherapy (UGFS) vs SFJ ligation and stripping (HL/S) Technical success (< 5 years) · people with GSV incompetence Ultrasound‐guided foam sclerotherapy (UGFS) may leads to lower technical success (< 5 years) compared with SFJ ligation and stripping (HL/S) (low certainty). Interventions for great saphenous vein incompetence (2021) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | OR 0.32 [0.11, 0.94] | 4 studies · 954 participants | Low |
Ultrasound‐guided foam sclerotherapy (UGFS) vs SFJ ligation and stripping (HL/S) Technical success (> 5 years) · people with GSV incompetence Ultrasound‐guided foam sclerotherapy (UGFS) probably leads to lower technical success (> 5 years) compared with SFJ ligation and stripping (HL/S) (moderate certainty). Interventions for great saphenous vein incompetence (2021) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | OR 0.09 [0.03, 0.3] | 3 studies · 525 participants | Moderate |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interventions for great saphenous vein incompetence 2021 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | list not extracted yet | Not assessed |
Studies behind the findings
None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.