VARICOSE VEIN UPDATE - Google Video

VARICOSE VEIN UPDATE - Google Video:

"The new treatment for varicose veins is a minimally-invasive procedure already proven to work in the major veins of the legs- that researchers are saying can be adapted for the minor ones as well, which account for roughly 20% of all cases. Find out more about it in his two-minute video clip.

It's an adapted endovenous laser procedure in which the patient is placed under local anesthetic and the laser is introduced directly into the vein, then the vein is sealed. The object is to stop the pooling of blood and the stretching of the vessels which causes varicose veins. Says Dr. Robert Min, an interventional radiologist and Director of Cornell Vascular, who pioneered the endovenous laser procedure, Over 99% of our patients have experienced symptomatic relief, which happens very quickly, over the first month."