It was his heart just about the most spectacular valvular incompetence I had ever heard.

The test can be repeated with the tourniquet at different levels to further pinpoint the level of valvular incompetence:

The Brodie-Trendelenburg percussion test is a medical test to determine valvular incompetence in superficial veins.

This valvular incompetence combined with persistent venous obstruction from thrombus increases the pressure in veins and capillaries.

When veins become varicose, the leaflets of the valves no longer meet properly, and the valves do not work (valvular incompetence).

Hyperdynamic circulation (valvular incompetence, thyrotoxicosis, hypercapnia, pyrexia, anemia, pregnancy).

It generally consists in 1 to 4 small incisions under local anaesthesia in order to disconnect the varicose veins from the abnormal flow due to valvular incompetence which dilates them.

Normally the superficial saphenous vein will fill from below within 3 to 5 seconds as blood from the capillary beds reaches the veins; if the superficial veins fill more rapidly with the tourniquet in place there is valvular incompetence below the level of the tourniquet in the "deep" or "communicating" veins.