Varicose veins occur as a result of poor blood circulation causing excessive expansion and continuing through the blood vessels. Arteries carry blood from the heart to the legs, and long veins and elastic channel has a valve to prevent backflow of blood and return it to heart, but sometimes weaken the walls and the valves stop working.
Possible causes
The main cause of the appearance of varicose veins including descendants (a more family members who suffer, the greater the chance that you’ve inherited), the use of contraception (female hormones play an important role in the expansion of blood vessels), a work that has been standing for hours or sit too long (and it also includes domestic work, more hours of standing, but must bear the venous pressure at the ankle), trade developed in contact with high temperature, physical activity, excess weight, alcohol and tobacco, diet deficient in vitamin E and became the mother of many children (pregnancy increase the amount of blood they need to manage the blood vessels, and the long months of pressing the fetal pelvis, thus preventing a good flow).
Prevention Tips
the varies manifested through symptoms such as leg pain, fatigue, cramps, Varículasinflamación, heavy legs, hot legs, bruising without cause or by simply touching, and so on. As soon as you start to detect the early symptoms can be incorporated into simple steps are:
• Keep your feet moving.
• Do not sit long legs moving.
• rose slightly to bed (with pillows, for example).
• Avoid heat sources directly affects the feet.
• Use compression stockings during the day.
• Playing sports, especially swimming.
• Wear clothes and comfortable shoes.
Treatment
Varicose veins should be handled by people with a degree of vascular surgeons, as the eye by eye doctors and orthopedists bone. Vascular surgery is a specialist who learned six or seven of Medicine, four years general surgery and a subspecialty of Vascular Surgery two years.
Right now there is a reliable method, safe and to produce minimal discomfort, scarring, pain or disability. Here are the key:
• Escleroespuma: indicated for the small veins, called telangiectasias. This is not dangerous and does not cause disability.
• Treatment ecoguide Foam: Foam is used (or “foam”) is entered directly into the blood vessels. Placed through a special device, guiding doctors through
the ultrasound machine screen. It is highly recommended for cases of intermediate difficulty.
• Laser: a treatment alternative to conventional surgery, which is determined to a large blood vessels and medium caliber. Small laser fiber (about the size of spaghetti) is inserted into the affected blood vessels, causing the collapse. This procedure is performed under local anesthesia.
• Radio frequency: treatment alternatives to surgery as well. Small catheter inserted into the affected blood vessels and neutralizes energy that shoots radio.
• Mini-incisions: when varicose veins are large incision needed to remove them. However, novel sophisticated instruments capable of doing this through a hole made with a needle, produces results very good cosmetics.
• Enof: Endoluminal treatme
nt of occlusion (in English, “ENOF” Endoluminal Oclution Foam) is a simple procedure that is designed for large veins. It’s quick and easy, no cuts or stitches, is an outpatient and recovery is almost immediate.
• Thermo coagulation: applied with a fine needle is inserted into the varicose veins and send impulses that make the thermal regulated immediately disappeared.
After each session the patient does not feel pain.
Regarding surgical techniques, there are some for correction of the anomalies of the scrotum, such as transinguinal, and retroperitoneal laparoscopy. In cases of infertility after surgery demonstrated satisfactory results regarding recovery of reproductive ability.