Summary

Due to the increased frequency among the population and the serious consequences upon the individual and upon the society, the chronic venous disease represents a field of high medical interest, being one of the pathologies with the greatest impact on patient decreasing the quality of life, comparable to diabetes mellitus, heart failure and oncological diseases. Together with the determinant and causative factors of chronic venous disease (varicose veins, deep vein thrombosis, congenital venous dysplasia, deep vein compression syndrome), an important role in the onset and progression of the disease is due to favoring factors (risk factors): heredity, constitutional factors (female sex, obesity, static foot anomalies), occupational factors (lack of physical exercises, orthostatic). The frequent association of several favoring factors in the same patient increases the risk of worsening the disease.