The use of the term “pelvic congestion syndrome” for this medical condition is recognized as incompletely characterizing the full pathophysiology and presentations of diseases of the pelvic venous system. This is, something that both the authors of the document as well as specialists, actively involved in research of this condition, agree.
Several alternative terms (“pelvic venous disorders”, “pelvic venous disease”) are being proposed. However, since the final agreement on the optimal nomenclature still has not been reached, the consensus document task force members decided that the document should contain the term “pelvic congestion syndrome”, which is included in the recent International Classification of Diseases and VEIN-TERM Transatlantic Interdisciplinary Consensus Document.
