Endovenous laser therapy for varicose veins

If varicose veins are not serious, conservative treatment can be used. In addition to avoiding prolonged standing and sitting for a long time, you can wear special compression stockings under the guidance of a doctor, and you can also take medication and exercise therapy. These conservative treatments are only used to relieve symptoms and have little effect. Only surgical treatment can see immediate results. Although the traditional high ligation and stripping of the great saphenous vein can peel off the blood vessels of the lesion, it has a good therapeutic effect. But the trauma is big. With the development of medical technology, EVLT laser treatment is currently considered to replace the traditional open surgery for varicose veins of the lower extremities.

Principles of laser treatment

The treatment principle is to deliver energy through a small-caliber, bendable optical fiber, and use the thermal efficiency of the optical fiber to inactivate and denature the vascular wall protein, then destroy the vascular wall intima, and finally form fibrosis, thereby inducing the atresia of the main vein The genus branch and subsequent thrombosis, the varicose vessels disappear, to achieve the purpose of minimally invasive treatment.

Advantages of laser treatment of varicose veins

Laser treatment has many advantages such as small trauma, light pain, low cost, quick postoperative recovery, extensive surgical indications, and fewer complications. These advantages meet the requirements of modern people for the development of medicine and are the current advanced methods for clinical treatment of varicose veins. However, any technique has certain shortcomings and deficiencies, and patients should decide on the surgical method according to their conditions.