Ultrasound video sapheno-femoral incompetence: part-1:

This patient of right lower limb varicose veins presented a strange display of the incompetent valves flailing helplessly in the to and fro flow of blood from and to the right great saphenous vein across the right saphenofemoral junction.
The spectral Doppler trace of this junction proves the point with moderately severe incompetence seen as reflux across the valve lasting almost 2 seconds. (see image below):

 













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