- For a effective treatment of varicose veins, always go to a hospital where services of a full-time Cardiovascular or Vascular surgeons are available
- In the early stages of varicose veins, exercise and sometimes medical treatment including sclerotherapy suffice.
- In advanced stages of varicose veins, surgery is required. There are various surgical treatments, like phlebectomy, vein stripping. In phlebectomy, small- sized varicose vein are removed while in stripping long- sized varicose veins are removed. There are no harmful effects on the body or legs after removal of varicose veins.
- These days, new techniques like laser treatment (EVLT) as well as radio frequency ablation technique (RFA) are also employed for varicose veins treatment, which drastically shortens the hospital stay & significantly minimizes the number of cuts in the skin. No stitches are required in these techniques. Patient can go home the same day and resume his office work soon after.
Dr. K. K. Pandey is a Senior Consultant in Cardiothoracic, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, with nearly 30 years of surgical experience. He has previously worked at Batra Hospital, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in New Delhi and the Bakulev Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery in Moscow. Dr. Pandey specializes in thoracic, lung and chest tumour surgery, varicose veins, vascular bypass procedures and diabetic foot management, using both open and minimally invasive techniques. A surgeon, writer and health educator, he regularly writes columns and books to make complex medical topics easy for the general public, believing that medical knowledge must reach every common person.