Vein HELP Center

What are Varicose Veins? Click HERE to find out.

What is Venous Reflux? CLick HERE to find out.
Click HERE to take a Self-Assessment to find out if you suffer from Varicose Veins and/or Venous Reflux.

Varicose Vein Treatments offered at PREVITY

VNUS Closure
VNUS Closure™ is a clinically proven, minimally invasive procedure that treats varicose veins and their underlying cause, venous reflux, with little or no pain. VNUS ClosureTM patients can walk away from the vein procedure and be back to everyday activities – either at home or at work – typically within a day.

Before VNUS Procedure	After VNUS Procedure

Ambulatory Phlebectomy

WHAT IS AMBULATORY PHLEBECTOMY?
Ambulatory phlebectomy is an outpatient procedure that removes superficial veins through small, slit-like incisions in the skin. The procedure involves four different steps:

1. outlining or marking the veins to be treated;
2. injecting local anesthesia into the skin;
3. surgical removal of the bulging veins, segment by segment, through small incisions, and
4. wearing compression stockings for one week or more after surgery.

WHAT SHOULD FIRST BE DONE BEFORE CONSIDERING AMBULATORY PHLEBECTOMY?
The patient should have a proper vein evaluation, which may include a relevant history and physical, a Doppler and/or a duplex ultrasound examination. These tests evaluate such factors as:

1. are the varicose veins the main problem, or are they connected to other veins that may need to be treated first?
2. are there clots in the superficial or deep veins which may need to be addressed?
3. are other procedures needed in addition to ambulatory phlebectomy?

WHEN IS AMBULATORY PHLEBECTOMY APPROPRIATE?
Ambulatory phlebectomy may be used to remove both asymptomatic and symptomatic superficial veins from the skin. Typically, treated veins are the larger, bulging (raised) and varicose veins, although smaller veins may also be removed with ambulatory phlebectomy. Ambulatory phlebectomy may be combined with other therapies in the treatment of venous reflux.