Varicose Vein Treatments? Any Cures?

Unfortunately, there is no cure for varicose veins. As a matter of fact, anyone who is treating patients with spider veins, varicose veins and reticular veins must remind the patient and educate the patient that he or she will have more vein problems throughout their lives and that there is no procedure that is available today that eliminates the formation of new varicose veins or spider veins or reticular veins. This is hard for some patients to hear from a phlebologist but this is the... more

As a board-certified vein specialists and vascular surgeon, I would like to respectfully disagree with some of the other physician panel responses to this question. There is definitely a "cure" for most patients who develop varicose veins and this has been proven in multiple well-done medical studies performed by vein specialists. To explain, you must first understand why varicose veins develop. Almost everyone with true varicose vein disease develops the problem due to faulty... more

It is true that most vein diseases will return with enough time. But Treatment of varicose veins is of crucial importance especially CEAP class4, 5 and 6 patients. Those with impending ulceration or ulcers should almost be considered emergent cases as venous stasis ulcers are very difficult to treat and can even lead to amputations.   Vnus or EVLA are the treatment of choice for large straight veins with reflux. GSV and SSV. Vnus is a radiofrequency ablation device and... more