VEIN TREATMENT

If you are diagnosed with Varicous Vein Disease (venous reflux disease), treatment begins with conservative measures such as increased walking every day, elevating your feet, taking over-the-counter medications like ibuprofen or Tylenol^® for pain and, most importantly, wearing compression hose prescribed by your healthcare provider.

Over-the-counter compression hose are good but prescription-strength compression hose are more effective at alleviating symptoms. Some insurance companies will pay for your prescription hose. Even if they don’t, almost all insurance companies will require these “conservative measures” for a set period of time before they will consider paying for any surgical treatment. Most people do find their discomfort is reduced by following conservative measures.

If you don’t have significant relief of your symptoms, then surgery - outpatient, performed in a doctor’s office - is often recommended.

Historically, surgical treatment required a lengthy hospital stay after a “stripping” procedure where the veins in the leg causing the problems were removed. The recovery was often long and painful. The treatment options for varicose veins have significantly improved. Today, there are several different treatment options that can be performed with little discomfort right in the office.

VenaCure
Ablation of the saphenous vein by the VenaCure laser vein treatment is an office based procedure we perform that is much less invasive than traditional vein stripping, has a minimal complication rate, is very well tolerated and produces excellent cosmetic results and relief of symptoms.

VenaCure works by thermal ablation of the vein lumen. The saphenous vein is cannulated under local anesthesia and a laser fiber is passed through the vein lumen.

When the laser is turned on, the direct release of thermal energy irreversibly damages the vein wall causing nearly immediate and permanent obliteration of the vein lumen.

We have been exceptionally pleased with our results using VenaCure and our patients have been very pleased with their outcomes.

Sclerotherapy
Patients must be screened before undergoing the procedure. Frequently those with very superficial and tortuous varicosities may not be appropriate candidates for VenaCure. Endothermal treatment of very superficial veins may produce a poor cosmetic result. Extreme vein tortuosity can make passage of the laser probe difficult and may, in some instances, preclude successful VenaCure. These patients can usually be treated successfully in our office by venous sclerotherapy or by micro-phlebectomy, direct surgical removal of the vein branch.