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Varicose Veins Information
- Varicose veins are veins on the leg which are large, twisted, and ropelike, and can cause pain, swelling, or itching. They are an extreme form of telangiectasia, or spider veins. Other symptoms of varicose veins include: aching, heavy legs (often worse at night), ankle swelling, a brownish-blue shiny skin discoloration around the veins, skin over the vein may become dry, itchy and thin, leading to eczema (venous eczema), the skin may darken (stasis dermatitis) because of the waste products building up in the legs...
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Minor injuries to the area may bleed more than normal and/or take a long time to heal. Rarely, there is a large amount of bleeding from a ruptured vein. In some people the skin above the ankle may shrink (lipodermatosclerosis) because the fat underneath the skin becomes hard.
Varicose veins are more common in women than in men, and are linked with heredity. Other related factors are pregnancy, obesity, menopause, aging, prolonged standing, leg injury and abdominal straining. Varicose veins are bulging veins that are larger than spider veins, typically 3 mm or more in diameter.
The irritation - especially the itching - of varicose veins can be controlled to an extent with either anti-inflammatory medication such as ibuprofen or aspirin -- but there is a risk of intestinal bleeding, or regular exercise, including vein gymnastics, wading through water and going barefoot.
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Health Blogs
Posted in Varicose Veins by Dr. Sharon Orrange on Jan 10, 2012
One of the biggest advancements I’ve seen in 10 years of private
practice is how endovenous (inside the vein) laser therapy is
replacing surgical treatment of varicose veins. Ligation and vein
stripping for varicose veins had been the treatment of choice for
many years. When the valves in the veins of the lower leg don’t
work well, this leads
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What’s not to love about swelling, pain, and bulging varicose
veins? A ton, and they can be expensive to take care of. Patients
with varicose veins wonder which treatment is the best: laser
therapy vs. surgery for vein stripping. Well, a new study shows
that for varicose veins, the result of saphenous vein
insufficiency, laser ablation therapy
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Stroke and heart disease are the big two issues all of us need to
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