What are the treatment aims for Superficial Vein Thrombosis?

What are the aims of treatment for superficial vein thrombosis? So the first thing to do is to identify how large and where the superficial vein thrombus is, and some people won't require immediate blood thinning or anticoagulation, but a reasonable a proportion of people will, and that's to stop the blood clot spreading into the deep veins. So you undergo the venous ultrasound scan, we see where the clot is and how big it is, and then a proportion of those people will go on to take blood thinners or anticoagulation straight away, and some people can be managed with simple painkillers and then re-scanned at a later date. After you've got through that initial episode of deciding if you need to have blood thinners or not. The next main treatment is about trying to reduce the risk of this coming back again. So for those of varicose veins, you'd look to undertake a varicose vein procedure to treat those varicose veins, reduce the chance of the blood being static and then reduce the chance of it coming back. We don't recommend this is done immediately, so whilst the vein is inflamed, we'd recommend for that to resolve first, so we typically say about three months time at least between the presentation of the superficial vein thrombosis and then coming back to get treatment of your varicose veins. The treatment of varicose veins is going to be discussed elsewhere and there's lots of ways of doing that but generally speaking I would recommend a minimally invasive or an endovenous varicose vein procedure.