A Rockville Vein Specialist Explains How Vein Doctors Make the World a Better Place
Medical technology has made tremendous advances in recent decades. Few of them, however, are as misunderstood and unappreciated as the advances that have taken place in the treatment of vein disease. This field is so misunderstood that if you asked most people what “vein disease” is, most would have no answer at all. So because it is difficult to understand how advances in vein disease treatment have made the world a better place if you don’t understand what vein disease IS, we’ll start this article by backtracking and “filling in the blanks” a little.
To understand how advanced modern vein treatment is, you have to understand how it used to be
Only a few years ago, the only way that doctors knew of to remove varicose veins permanently was a surgical process called “vein stripping.” And yes, it was as terrible as it sounds – you had to go to a hospital and undergo general anesthesia while a surgeon made long incisions along each of the swollen veins and then literally scraped them away with a scalpel. As you can imagine, this procedure was painful, recovery times were long, and it often resulted in scars that were as unattractive as the varicose veins that had been removed.
Compare this to what varicose vein removal is like today
Thanks to advances in medical imaging and interventional radiology, modern varicose vein doctors in Rockville can remove varicose veins in the comfort of one of the best vein centers in Rockville in about an hour. The minimally-invasive procedures we use are so painless they don’t require even a local anesthetic, and so gentle that they don’t require any recovery time because there is nothing to recover from. Most people who have had their varicose veins treated this way would agree that their world is a better place as a result.
But vein disease treatment is about more than eliminating ugly veins
Varicose veins – as unattractive as they are – are only the surface symptoms of a deeper circulatory disease called chronic venous insufficiency, or CVI. And the negative effects of this disease are far more extensive than just swollen and discolored veins. Beneath the skin surface, CVI causes swollen legs and ankles, and chronic pain so intense that it becomes difficult to walk or even stand. At the same time, the damage that CVI does to your immune system means that every day you don’t have your varicose veins treated you are at greater risk of getting other diseases such as diabetes, stroke, and heart disease.
And that’s not even mentioning a more serious vein disease that often appears with varicose veins, deep vein thrombosis, or DVT. This condition causes blood clots in the large veins of your legs; if these clots travel to your brain they cause a stroke, and if they travel to your lungs they cause pulmonary embolisms. These conditions kill over 300,000 Americans every year, and if modern vein disease treatments had not been invented, that number would be much higher.
Fortunately, vein disease treatment in Washington DC IS available, and can help to make your world a better place
You Washington DC vein specialist is as close as your telephone. To contact him, just call Dr. Hamza Rana at 301-637-3088 today and set up an appointment for an initial consultation. You’ll be happy you did.
