Vein Treatment TechniquesPatient Care Strategiesvaricose veinsendovenous therapyfoam sclerotherapylaseropen ligationradio frequency ablationstrippinggreat saphenous veinshort saphenous vein
Conservative vs surgical management options?
Conservative options include minimising risk factors and surgical options include minimally invasive and open surgeries. In this video, Dr. Gwozdz tells us more about the treatment options.
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So, conservative options for varicose veins are minimizing risk factors, things like diet, exercise to reduce weight, as well as compression stockings, which we discussed as the reason behind that treatment. The surgical options are those of both sort of minimally invasive and open surgery. So the minimally invasive surgical management is an endovenous therapy, so this could be either radio frequency ablation, laser or glue or injections of foam sclerotherapy. So the The first three that I mentioned involve putting a catheter inside the lumen of the vein and it treats the varicose vein by closing that vein to force blood down a vein that is working. The open surgical options include open ligation and stripping a vein means that you make a small cut very close to the groin that is a few centimeters in size and you're able to tie off the in the example I'm giving the great saphenous vein and remove that vein entirely from from the leg and the other vein that this can be done with is the short saphenous vein and so both endovenous and open surgical options can treat both great saphenous and short saphenous vein. you
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