Varicose Veins And Treatment - A Majority Of Patients Can Be Treated With Injection Sclerotherapy

(prHWY.com) September 14, 2012 - USA, FL -- Florida, Sep 13, 2012 - A piece of thread known as a suture is tied around the leaking blood vessel preventing the blood from leaking backwards and swelling the vein. Patients who receive this procedure have a recurrence rate of about 6%-80%.

Patients with recurrent varices, whether of primary or post-thrombotic etiology, in the great or small saphenous vein distribution were included in this study. These were limbs with protuberant, saccular varicose veins and a history of previous intervention by surgery, laser or radiofrequency closure.

Varicose Veins And Treatment - Immediately after treatment, all patients returned to normal activity. None were instructed to forced ambulation. Absence of sedation, analgesia and anesthesia allowed unaccompanied patients to drive themselves from the office. No adverse events such as dry cough, ocular signs, chest pain or panic attacks developed. Unlike surgical interventions, no treatment hematomas or wound infections developed.

Exclusions were limbs treated by sclerotherapy without surgery, isolated telangiectasias, limbs that were a part of the Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome, limbs with congenital or acquired arteriovenous malformations, and limbs with venous malformations

Three limbs remained C4, but the inflammatory component of lipodermatosclerosis slowly disappeared following direct ultrasound-guided perforating vein injections. The remaining 71 became either C0 or C1. (The CEAP score was not designed to provide an evaluation of clinical results in general, but in this study did show elimination of recurrent varicose veins.)

Elva - Interventions for recurrent varicose veins actually follow the same pattern as primary treatment. That is, sources of reflux such as neovascularization are diagnosed with a venogram. These reservoirs of varicose veins that receive such reflux need to be closed, and this can be achieved surgically with a single operation. But such procedures are tedious at best, and dangerous and incomplete at worst.

Foot and ankle swelling immediately after treatment was encountered, but this was usually caused by the compression dressings. Narcotics were not required for pain management, but analgesics were taken whenever the compression dressing interfered with sleep. Endresults, as assessed by the patients and by the treating physician, were satisfactory for most of the cases. There was elimination of varicose veins and sources of venous reflux in every case

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Varicose Veins And Treatment- The Vein Clinic of South Florida is the longest running Phlebology practice in southeast Florida. Dr. D'Alessandro, the owner and sole practitioner, is a vascular surgeon who has limited his practice exclusively to veins since 1988. No one in southeast Florida has treated as many varicose vein and spider vein patients as the Vein Clinic of South Florida.

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