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• There are three varieties of blood vessels: arteries, veins, and capillaries. ... The capillaries connect the arteries to veins. Finally, the veins carry the blood back to the heart. ...
• When we measure blood pressure, we use the blood flowing through the arteries because it has a higher pressure than the blood in the veins. ...

• New Treatment For Sufferers Of Varicose Veins.
• HEALTH NEWS — You can cover them up by wearing long pants, but its hard to mask the pain of varicose veins. ...
• The thick ropey looking veins can leave your legs aching, particularly if you have to be on your feet all day. ...
• Varicose veins form when the valves that keep blood moving up toward the heart break down, allowing it to run backward. ...

• Treating Varicose Veins With Radiofrequency Or Laser Heat.
• Minimally Invasive Treatment For Varicose And Spider Veins (June 8, 2004) -- More than 80 million Americans suffer from some form of superficial venous disease, such as varicose and spider veins. ...
• Donna Kurowski has battled pain, swelling and pressure from varicose veins in her legs since she was in her early twenties. ...
• , assistant professor of medicine at the Washington University School of Medicine wanted to help Kurowski improve her quality of life and suggested that she undergo the VNUS Closure procedure to treat her varicose veins.
• Symptoms include pain, fullness, heaviness, aching, visibly enlarged veins, swelling, skin discoloration and ulcers around the ankles.
• Normally, Peterson says, veins carry blood from the extremities toward the heart. With varicose veins, the blood flows backward, pooling impure and acidic blood in the legs.
• "People mistakenly think that treating varicose veins is cosmetic, but many patients are very unhappy due to the pain and discomfort," Petersen says. ...
• The VNUS Closure procedure became available in the United States in 1999 as an alternative to traditional vein stripping, the surgical removal of veins from the leg. ...
• Over time, faulty valves in the saphenous vein can result in unattractive, bulging and painful varicose veins. ...
• Once the diseased vein is closed, healthy veins take over, and normal blood flow returns to the leg, allowing the swelling, pain and discoloration to improve noticeably.
• And although she didn't have the procedure for cosmetic reasons, she was happy to see bulgy veins and pigment discoloration disappear.
• Petersen says European studies have shown that more than 91 percent of legs treated with the procedure were free of venous reflux, the underlying cause of varicose veins, two years later.

• A Recent Comparative Review of 260 Varicose Veins Treated by Internal Laser Shows Laser Treatment has the Lowest Recurrence Rate of All Treatment Options. ...
• Local long term follow up from 260 legs treated by Endo Venous Laser Treatment (EVLT) has show that EVLT had a lower recurrence rate than either Vein Surgery or Sclerotherapy Injections for treatment of Varicose Veins*.
• Melbourne, Australia (PRWEB) November 26, 2004 -- Varicose Veins effect up to 40% of Women and 25% of Men in Australia and can lead to serious long term complications if left untreated. ...
• “With over 500 clinics worldwide now treating Varicose Veins by this method with a 98% success rate EVLT has rapidly becoming the treatment of choice for this disease” he concluded.
• Internal Laser ablation of the source of Varicose Veins.

• Minimally Invasive Treatment For Varicose And Spider Veins.
• More than 80 million Americans suffer from some form of superficial venous disease, such as varicose and spider veins. ...
• Treating Varicose Veins With Radiofrequency Or Laser Heat (December 27, 2004) -- Some 41 percent of American women may have varicose vein disease by the time they reach their 40s and 50s. ...
• First Non-Surgical Bypass Successfully Turns Vein Into Artery (May 29, 2001) -- A 53-year-old German man became the first person to undergo a new, non-surgical technique that turned one of his coronary veins into a coronary artery to bypass a blockage, according to a special. ...
• "This minimally invasive procedure offers many advantages to traditional methods of eliminating varicose veins. ... These unsightly veins are actually caused by an incompetent saphenous vein. ...
• Pain and swelling in the legs is frequently related to abnormal leg veins. ... Severe varicose veins can compromise the nutrition of the skin and lead to eczema, inflammation or even ulceration of the lower leg. ...
• Heredity is the number one contributing factor causing varicose and spider veins. Women are more likely to suffer from abnormal leg veins. ...

• Varicose veins.
• Varicose veins affect up to 20% of men and 30% of women at sometime in their lives. They appear as swollen or twisted veins and are most commonly visible beneath the skin on the legs.
• The superficial leg veins.
• Once it has given up the oxygen and nutrients it was carrying, blood returns towards the heart through the veins. To do this from the legs, blood in the veins must flow upwards, against gravity. One-way valves inside the veins prevent the blood from flowing backwards.
• Each time the calf and thigh muscles contract when walking, veins deep inside the leg are squeezed. ...
• Surface and deep veins.
• Blood from the outer layers of the leg collects into veins near to the surface. These surface, or superficial, veins are connected to the deeper veins inside the leg by "perforator" veins. When blood does not flow properly from the surface veins to the deep veins, pressure can build up in the surface veins. This results in blood pooling and the visible sign of varicose veins.
• Causes of varicose veins .
• The reason varicose veins develop is not fully understood. ...
• This means that blood can't travel up the veins as well as easily, and is more likely to pool. ...

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• Superficial and deep veins, lateral view .
• Diagram of great veins .
• Superficial Veins .
• Superficial inguinal arteries and veins, anterior .
• Superficial veins of the lower limb .

• FDA Approves Sotradecol Injection for the Treatment of Varicose Veins.
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Sotradecol Injection (Sodium Tetradecyl Sulfate Injection) for the treatment of varicose veins.
• Sotradecol has been shown to be an effective treatment of small, uncomplicated varicose veins of the lower extremities. ...
• "The practicing phlebologist now has an approved standard option for treating his or her patients with both spider and varicose veins. ...
• "Sotradecol as a sclerosant has proven to be highly effective for small and large veins with a safe record. Combined with ambulation and compression, varicose veins have fibrosed as followed by duplex ultrasound studies. ...

• Varicose Veins and Spider Veins.
• What are varicose veins and spider veins?.
• How common are abnormal leg veins?.
• What causes varicose and spider veins?.
• Why do varicose and spider veins usually appear in the legs?.
• Are varicose and spider veins painful or dangerous?.
• How can I prevent varicose and spider veins?.
• Should I see a doctor about varicose veins?.
• How are varicose and spider veins treated?.
• Can varicose and spider veins return even after treatment?.
• What are varicose veins and spider veins?.
• Arteries carry blood from the heart towards the body parts, while veins carry blood from the body parts back to the heart. As the blood is pumped back to the heart, veins act as one-way valves to prevent the blood from flowing backwards. ... These enlarged veins can be either varicose veins or spider veins.
• Varicose veins are very swollen and raised above the surface of the skin. ... During pregnancy, varicose veins called hemorrhoids can form in the vagina or around the anus.

• Varicose veins seem to be part of the human condition. ...

• Synonyms and related keywords: venous stasis, postphlebitic syndrome, venous reflux, stasis dermatitis, stasis ulcer, venous ulcer, valvular incompetence, DVT, deep vein thrombosis, deep venous thrombosis, superficial venous incompetence, superficial venous insufficiency, varicose veins, junctional high-pressure disease, perforator high-pressure disease, venous hypertension .
• Background: In venous insufficiency states, venous blood escapes from its normal antegrade path of flow and refluxes backward down the veins into an already congested leg. ...
• Deep venous insufficiency occurs when the valves of the deep veins are damaged as a result of deep venous thrombosis (DVT). ...
• In superficial venous insufficiency, the deep veins are normal, but venous blood escapes from a normal deep system and flows backwards through dilated superficial veins in which the valves have failed. ...
• The valves in superficial veins can fail for a variety of reasons. ... Normal veins and normal valves may become excessively distensible under the influence of hormones (as in pregnancy). ...
• High pressure causes secondary valve failure when otherwise normal superficial veins become so widely dilated that the thin flaps of the venous valves can no longer make contact in the lumen of the vessel. Over time, these incompetent superficial veins become visibly dilated and tortuous, at which point they are recognized as varicose veins. ...
• High pressure can enter the superficial veins as a result of the failure of key valves at any point of communication between the deep system and the superficial system. The 2 major sources of high-pressure leakage from the deep veins to the superficial system are junctional valve failure and perforator valve failure. ...
• When the primary high-pressure entry point is distal, large clusters of veins are first noticed in the lower leg, with large veins eventually growing up the leg toward the groin.
• Arterial inflow fills the leg veins slowly, and the only source of venous pressure is the hydrostatic pressure of a column of blood as high as the nearest competent valve. After prolonged standing, the veins are completely filled, and all the venous valves float open. ...
• In many cases, the venous blood is moving at a normal speed, but a local recirculation of this venous blood upward through normal veins and downward through varicosities prolongs the average transit time for the blood to pass from the heart and lungs through the legs and back to the central circulation. ...
• The aliquot transit time and the clearance time for an extremity are closely related to the volume of retrograde flow through refluxing veins. ... Experimental evidence shows that if the peak retrograde flows in the greater and short saphenous veins and popliteal vein add to less than 10 mL/s, progressive visible stasis dermatitis and ulceration do not occur. ...

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