Endovenous laser treatment

Endovenous laser treatment is a medical procedure that uses laser energy to treat the incompetent greater saphenous vein. The treatment involves delivering laser energy directly into the blood-filled vessel lumen, which heats the blood and causes damage to the adjacent endothelial and vein wall. This damage leads to fibrosis, which helps to close off the vein and improve blood flow.From: The Fundamentals of Phlebology: Venous Disease for Clinicians [2007], Roenigk's Dermatologic Surgery [2019]

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Published in Kaji Sritharan, Samia Ijaz, Neil Russell, Tim Allen-Mersh, 300 Essentials SBAs in Surgery, 2017

Kaji Sritharan, Samia Ijaz, Neil Russell, Tim Allen-Mersh

Which of the following statements is true regarding primary varicose veins? Sapheno-femoral incompetence is more common than sapheno-popliteal incompetence.Surgery should not be offered without a prior trial of graded compression stockings.Damage to the saphenous nerve during surgery results in foot drop.Endovenous laser treatment is only useful for treating sapheno-femoral incompetence.They are commonly caused by deep vein thrombosis.

Efficacy and safety assessment of an ultrasound-based thermal treatment of varicose veins in a sheep model

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Published in International Journal of Hyperthermia, 2020

Nesrine Barnat, Anthony Grisey, Bjoern Gerold, Sylvain Yon, Jérémie Anquez, Jean-François Aubry

Treatments of varicose veins aim at eliminating the pathologic vein from the venous circulation. This can be achieved by surgical removal of the vein or, less invasively, by chemical (sclerotherapy) or thermal occlusion of the vein. The two most frequently used thermal procedures include endovenous laser treatment (EVLT) [4] and radiofrequency ablation (RFA) [5]. They both consist in introducing an optical fiber or a catheter into the target vein and heating the vein to cause vein wall collagen contraction, endothelium destruction, vein wall inflammatory reaction and finally fibrosis [6]. Laser-based interventions have been reported to be better tolerated than RF [7]. The long-term goal of these thermal treatments is to induce complete shrinking or to occlude the pathologic vein.

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