Varicose veins of the legs, it is known to people for a very long time, and this diagnosis to their patients even the "founding fathers" of modern medicine: Hippocrates, Galen, and Paracelsus. However, it is the most common disease has received, in the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, to continue to generate new positions: according to the world health organization (who) is in our days the signs of illness to varying degrees, they have about 66% of men and more than 80% of the women who live in developed countries. The predominance of women over men, due to the fact that the character is set to the weakening of the gender of the responsibility for the bearing and birth of children and also the passion of the beautiful half of humanity, is that of an elegant, high-heel shoes. Modern methods of treatment of varicose veins of the lower extremities to allow a reduction of the condition without resorting to a surgical procedure.
Why should the treatment of varicose veins
Varicose veins – a disease of the people "stands by" the professions: sellers, hairdressers, workers in a machine, surgeons and those whose professional duties require a long-term static load on the lower limbs. In the situation of a static load to a weakened vein valves, regulating the flow and discharge of blood in that part of the body. As a result, the blood in the veins stagnates and thickens, stretching, and deforming the walls of the blood vessels – a prerequisite for the occurrence of varicose veins.
The process is slow, and at first the sick man to believe that he had varicose veins in the legs, if he does not see a strong swelling and protruding under the skin of the rugged strands. However, this pattern is only characteristic for the advanced stages, when it is the only way to restore the normal appearance of the lower limbs becomes a surgical scalpel. However, the main risk to suffer from varicose veins do not make feet hurt, swell, and lose their appeal, covered with a knotted, the vessel protruding above the surface of the skin.
It causes stagnation of blood flow, of varicose veins caused by the blood vessels in the legs and blood clot formation – a dense clots composed of erythrocytes (blood cells). The more the blood clots spread all over the body, penetrate the lungs, the heart, the brain, blockage of the blood vessels supplying them with blood and leading to thromboembolism – blockage of the vessel lumen, which may become a serious pathology:
- Myocardial infarction – death of tissue of the heart muscle due to a lack of blood supply;
- Stroke – acute impairment cerebral circulation, which leads to the death of brain cells;
- Gangrene – necrosis of tissue.
Attention!
One of the disease, as described above, has the effect, at least in severe disability, with most of the deaths. Thus, the start of varicose veins is impossible and, in any case.
To go to the doctor and the patient, with the first signs of the disease:
- Weariness of the legs;
- Pulling pains in the legs, especially at the end of the day or after a workout;
- A tingling sensation of the legs, that is, as "spent";
- Small spider veins and "spider veins" on the surface of the skin on legs;
- Spasm of the muscles of the legs (usually at night);
- Swelling of the legs.
If, in a timely manner to take measures, modern treatment of varicose veins of the legs prevent the progression of the disease and reverse the process. Now, it is possible to do it without resorting to a highly traumatic surgical operations, which were previously the only way to solve the problem. Doctors there are many treatment procedures for varicose veins, you can provide the patient the opportunity to return to a normal life.
A method of treatment of varicose veins
Often, patients suffering from an advanced form of varicose veins in the legs, especially women, are afraid of the operation, and to remain at his scar, he pulled the doctor up to the last moment, which is a condition to the extreme. However, in medicine, as in any other profession, is evolving all the time, and her daughters, and the grandchildren will not have to fear that you suffer from varicose veins, they will be treated the same way as their mothers and grandmothers. The experts have invented a wide range of effective therapeutic techniques, bezoperatsionnaya, or the so-called " minimally-invasive, i.e. it does not require a deep way. Among them, the most popular of the procedures, such as the following:
- Sclerotherapy;
- The laser treatment is;
- Radiofrequency ablation of the veins;
- Microphlebectomy.
Each of these methods for the treatment of varicose veins modern method of I need to say more.
Sclerotherapy
For the procedures to be carried out at the stage of varicose veins when the affected vein is superficial, and not deeply affected by drug, called a sclerosant, is injected into the affected varicose vein. This is done with the help of a syringe or the micro-catheter – a thin tube, the diameter of which is less than the cross-section of a human hair, which is a physician who pierces the skin of the city, which has a significant effect on the varicose vessel. The manipulation does not cause unpleasant sensations, sometimes accompanied by a feeling of light burning. Glue or Sclerosant to the vein wall from the inside, giving it from the heart and the circulatory system, as a result of the cuts, it reduces and ceases to worry the patient are being removed from the surface of the skin. Therefore, it is necessary for the application of the method is not only therapeutic, but also cosmetic effect.
The process takes about half an hour, during which the doctor makes several injections into a vein through a hole in the skin. Usually, the treatment according to the method of sclerotherapy of not more than three of such procedures but, sometimes, with a particular emphasis on the condition of the patient, the doctor may decide to increase the number of passengers. From one to the other the visit to the doctor should be at least a week or so.
Prior to the visit to the doctor, the patient must be able to get a shower, and within a period of 2 days before and 2 days after that, when you are in compliance with the set limits, a guarantee of the success of treatment by this method:
- Do not smoke and do not drink alcohol;
- If you want to stop taking blood-thinning medications;
- It will not be a hair removal is not applied to the skin of a cosmetic product;
- Don't have to come into the office, he's hungry – you must eat for an hour and a half prior to the start of the process.
The complexity is the result of the method of sclerotherapy does not typically occur, however, it may be observed:
- Itching at the injection site, which subsides after 2 hours of the injection;
- The pain can last up to three days;
- The peeling of skin stops after 10 to 12 days.
A very rare (1 in a thousand), it can be an inflammation of the veins – thrombophlebitis.
At the end of a course of treatment with this method, you will need to:
- During the week, in order to avoid to reinforce the load on my feet.
- In two weeks, you don't take a hot bath and a hot shower;
- The two-and-a-half months, so don't go in the bath;
- Do not sit or stand for long periods of time.
Important!
The procedure of sclerotherapy has to be a professional doctor so that you will have to seek help only in specialized medical institutions. Upon completion of the course, you need a doctor's supervision in a few months.
The Laser
Laser therapy is another method to treat varicose veins without surgery. Among its advantages are the following:
- Vein treatment laser beam does not require any incisions, and does not leave any marks on the surface of the skin on legs;
- The procedure is virtually pain-free – a very deep local anesthesia;
- The process takes only a few minutes.
- The patient's recovery after such a bloodless surgery and it is very fast.
The laser unit generates radiation of waves of a certain length, which passes through the venous blood that creates the heat "of the" diseased vessels from the inside out. As a result, it is excluded from the circulation of blood as well as the blood circulation is continued in the deep veins and collateral – small side of blood vessels. When the stresses are starting to build, and a couple of days to reach the size of a distant vessel.
The procedure is performed under local anesthesia, by injection into a vein through a puncture site in the skin on the legs of the laser-light guide on the tip, which is a microscopic lens, ensuring the beam distribution for a uniform coagulation (sealing) of Vienna, austria. The manipulation of water for 30 minutes, after which the patient can immediately return to normal life.
Contra-indications for the use of, for the treatment of varicose veins with laser therapy, are pregnancy and breast-feeding. The procedure is contraindicated during the acute comorbidities, a tendency to form blood clots, inflammation of the skin in the area of laser application, low blood clotting.
Radiofrequency ablation
This is the non-surgical treatment of varicose veins of the lower extremities began to use relatively recently – only about ten years ago. It is widely used in the united states and Western Europe, in Russia, for example, in the same manner as they were three years ago, and while it is rarely used. The main reason is the high cost of the equipment required for examination and treatment.
This process gives a beautiful effect in the treatment of varicose veins in the legs. It is appreciated by both physicians and patients. This is in large part similar to the laser through an incision made in the skin, the doctor inserts a patient into the lumen of the vessel, an RF wave that seals the vessel, the radiation of the radio waves. Out of the blood circulation of the Report with the passage of time is replaced by connective tissue. Contra-indications, except those that are specific to laser treatment, the patient of the atherosclerosis and a serious degree of obesity.
The positive side of the use of the method in comparison with conventional surgery for varicose veins in the legs include:
- There is far less of the negative feelings of the patient.
- A strong performance there is a positive effect of the method takes a number of years.
- The low probability of a complication – according to the statistics, there are only three people out of a hundred, we have a process.
Important! It is very important to the expertise of the physician, who carries out the manipulation for this method. The patient is advised to pay special attention to this aspect of the issue prior to the treatment.
Micro-phlebectomy
It's even more challenging minimally invasive procedure is a microsurgical procedure in which the doctor removes the diseased vessel, beneath the skin through a microscopic incision using a special hook. The effect on the varicose veins of the area and cut off a healthy part of the vessel are stitched together.
After the operation the patient's skin, are of very small scars which cannot be seen with the naked eye. Sometimes, the incision will appear a hematoma which will disappear in two weeks. In the recovery period (1-2 months of a specific date, which is dependent on the number of managed vessels), the patient must wear a compression garment and avoid strenuous exercise. The rest of the patient undergoing surgery, you can lead a normal way of life.
The timely aid of the modern medicine offers many ways for the treatment of varicose veins of the legs, which makes it possible to solve this problem with minimal damage to the patient. Make the right choice of the method to the patient will help the physician after appropriate research.