The aim of this web site is to present a new treatment of varicose veins: echoguided sclerotherapy with microfoam :
Varicose veins are distended veins, more or less tortuous, with a blood flow.
There is no reason to leave varicose veins get worse and this only to avoid undergoing surgery and its related constraints: general anaesthesia, hospitalization, and sick leave.
Using simultaneously 2 technologies allow you to smoothly get rid of varicose veins, even ones of large calibre, applying to the veins a technique well known as sclerosis (injection of sclerosing agent), technique initially used only for varicosities (telangiectasies).
These are known as:
- Ultrasound guidance: which allows you to identify the source of the blood flow and to make the injection at that strategic point.
- Sclerosing microfoam: reinforces the efficacy of the sclerosing agent, which is injected by using ultrasound guidance, thanks to the optimum filling of the varicose veins using micro-bubbles.
A non invasive treatment, efficient on a long term basis, which doesn't involve any immobilization.
- Simplicity: it can be done :
- In a medical practice,
- in about 1 hour,
- using a pulsed echodoppler,
- using an echoguided injection of sclerosing micro foam with a syringe or a catheter, depending on the size of the varicose vein,
- Efficacy:
- Varicose veins are neutralized and retract,
- Relief occurs quickly: sensation of heaviness, pain, erythema, itching, eczema, oedema and healing of varicose ulcers disappear.
- Durability:
- Looking retrospectively on 10 years of practise with this technique shows that the results obtained last on a long term basis.
- Absence of significant side effects:
- The sclerosing products used, have been known for a long time, they are well tolerated and even more when used as foam.
- There are no drawbacks such as the ones encountered when removing surgically a varicose vein (no scars or injuries made to the nerve endings or capillaries.)
- No immobilization for the patient:
- The patient leaves with an elastic bandage that has to be kept on for five days.
- The patient can leave immediately and walk without assistance.
Follow up visits are programmed at day+7, day+30, 6 months, 1 year.
To conclude: this new care technique meets the expectations that patients are currently waiting for:
- Surgery is no longer necessary thanks to advances in technology.
- There is no interruption of personal and professional activities.