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In Vascular Clinic Dr. Jorge Molina we are very much aware of how important is your time, and how much you can be worrying about your problem. That’s the reason why we address all our efforts to solve it in the fastest and most comfortable way for you, but most of all…
In the continued effort we scientists do for medical research, and trying to provide increasingly better and less problematic solutions to our patients, new techniques are continually being developed, but some of them either have not yielded the expected results, or for any reason they have not received enough interest from vascular surgeons and have fallen by the wayside. In other cases, they are still…
During the last years – always pursuing the target of a less aggressive, less invasive approach in the treatment of varicose veins -, new techniques have been developed, based on the same principles I was explaining in the previous post: the use of puncture-catheter to navigate inside the varicose vein, visual guide by Duplex Ultrasound, controlled lesion of the varicose…
Whenever we come across the word “laser” – and in medicine would not be less – it seems to have a magical, striking effect. Some mysterious halo surrounds this word, which seems to promise that it is able to solve anything, whatever it might be… Beyond any doubt, this is one of the reasons…
In today’s post I will discuss one of the oldest treatments, which is also one of the most widely used and at the same time most controversial: the injections for varicose veins, named sclerosis or sclerotherapy.
Sclerotherapy is the injection of a substance inside a vein to cause…
In this issue I’ll explain about two different surgical techniques for varicose veins, which can be both used separately or in a combined way.
The C.H.I.V.A. strategy was defined…
Opposite to conservative treatments, invasive treatments are those that require a more or less aggressive approach, but are intended to eliminate varicose veins or venous insufficiency (from Superficial Venous System only).
Here it’s necessary to point out something: although we know many factors that influence…
This week I’m explaining the most effective of the conservative treatments; this one that is loved by some and hated by some others, but it is beyond any doubt the most useful as a treatment and also as prevention against the development of varicose veins, their symptoms and their complications: the compression stockings.
To begin with, I will clarify…
Our next chapter in these series intended to inform about treatments for vein insufficiency, varicose veins and similar situations (spider veins), this week we are going to discuss about a group of measures that we’ll name postural hygiene measures.
There are quite a number of changes in lifestyle that…
A topic of great interest for general public is often treatments for varicose veins: How varicose veins can be removed, and what are exactly these treatments?
Along the following weeks I will be posting a series of articles explaining which are…