Which statement best reflects a venous disease management concept consistent with the material?

• A. Elevate legs and use compression
• B. Keep legs dependent for venous return
• C. Edema that improves with leg elevation occurs with venous disease
• D. Avoid wearing compression stockings

Answer: (C)

The concept here is how edema from venous disease behaves and how leg elevation fits into its management. When veins aren’t functioning well, blood pools in the legs, raising venous pressure and causing swelling. Elevating the legs reduces this hydrostatic pressure and helps push blood back toward the heart, so edema often gets smaller with the leg raise. That descriptive pattern—edema improving with leg elevation—directly reflects a venous problem and supports using leg elevation as a standard part of management, often along with compression to further aid venous return.

The other statements don’t align as clearly with venous disease management: keeping legs dependent encourages pooling and swelling, avoiding compression stockings contradicts a key treatment approach, and while elevating the legs with compression is good practice, the point about edema improving with leg elevation best captures the characteristic response of venous edema.