Usually, medical device diagnostics are not required.
Optional medical device diagnostics – depending on the results of the history, physical examination, and obligatory laboratory parameters – for differential diagnostic clarification
- Compression phlebosonography (KUS, synonym: vein compression sonography); sonography (ultrasound examination) to document and check the compressibility of the deep veins of the legs and arms) – in cases of suspected
- Superficial venous thrombosis (OVT) to accurately determine the extent and location of OVT.
- Deep vein thrombosis (DVT); very safe procedure especially for thrombi (blood clots) of the femoral veins or popliteal vein [gold standard].
- Duplex sonography (ultrasound examination: combination of a sonographic cross-sectional image (B-scan) and the Doppler sonography method; imaging procedure in medicine that can dynamically display fluid flows (especially blood flow)) of the vessels of the affected region, to visualize:
- Extension of the phlebitis
- Sites of confluence femoral (“pertaining to the thigh”) and popliteal (“pertaining to the back of the knee”)
- Transfascial connections
- Deep veins, i.e., the entire deep conducting vein system
Note: In superficial venous thrombosis (OVT), duplex sonographic findings are often much more extensive than clinical findings.
- Phlebography (imaging of the veins by contrast medium in an X-ray examination).
