💐 👉🏽 👲🏾 Laser vein removal: reviews, consequences and rehabilitation 💢 👩‍⚖️ 😭

Many people, especially women suffering from varicose veins, are saddened by the unaesthetic appearance of their legs, covered with a web of purple vessels or swollen veins. To eliminate this defect, some decide to remove the veins with a laser. And this desire is fully justified. Using this innovative procedure helps to avoid the following dangerous manifestations of varicose veins: trophic ulcers, thrombophlebitis, thrombosis, which are detected in every fourth patient.

Options for surgical treatment of veins

The phlebectomy operation, in which the entire vein is removed, is very painful and traumatic, while the likelihood of infectious complications is high. With microphlebectomy, only part of the vein is removed and this operation is also accompanied by various complications, and scars remain on the skin of the legs. Sclerotherapy, which causes blockage and desolation of the vessel, can cause an allergic reaction. Therefore, laser vein removal is the best treatment.

Laser coagulation is a modern method of treating venous disease, the introduction of which into clinical practice occurred a little more than 10 years ago. For such a short period, laser treatment has brilliantly demonstrated its safety and effectiveness.

How it works?

Endovenous laser coagulation is a bonding. Due to the influence of laser energy, the affected vein is sealed. The procedure takes place in a laboratory setting that does not include any incisions and lasts 30–40 minutes.

Doctors conditionally divide laser treatment into two stages:

the effect on the saphenous vein, in which the valves are disturbed, due to which the blood moves incorrectly;
effect on the inflows of the main veins affected by the disease.

Ugly, bulging veins from under the skin are a consequence of a certain disease. The cause of all varicose lesions is the main saphenous vein, in which the valves for some reason stopped closing, contributing to the reverse flow of blood. After laser coagulation, a qualitatively fused vein remains in place, but the blood circulation through it stops, as a result of which its movement is carried out through other healthy veins. Thanks to this procedure, the patient does not remember his problem the very next day.

Indications for surgery

With the help of endovasal laser coagulation surgery, varicose veins of any prevalence and localization are effectively eliminated. Most often, this surgical intervention is used for diseases of the vessels of the legs.

Before the patient is sent to remove leg veins with a laser, he is consulted by a surgeon-phlebologist and a laboratory and instrumental examination is performed.

Benefits of Laser Treatment

If a patient is diagnosed with varicose veins , laser coagulation can successfully cope with the main tasks. It:

elimination of varicose syndrome;
complete disposal of venous insufficiency.

Before the advent of the laser, all other methods of treatment could not so easily, quickly and efficiently relieve a person of swollen veins.

Thus, laser treatment has the following advantages:

hospitalization is not required for the operation;
the possibility of simultaneous treatment of both legs;
short duration of the operation;
the use of exclusively local anesthesia;
after treatment, the patient goes home after 1-3 hours;
excellent cosmetic effect;
a small percentage of complications after surgery.

Contraindications for surgery

Although laser coagulation has virtually replaced other methods of treating varicose veins, in some cases this method cannot be used. For example, with changes in the deep veins of the legs, such treatment will be ineffective, as with advanced forms of varicose veins or the occurrence of specific complications (trophic ulcers, varicose dermatitis).

The operation becomes technically difficult or requires special training if the patient has increased bleeding, obesity, severe chronic diseases of the endocrine, cardiovascular and respiratory system.

Operation Technique

If a person is diagnosed with varicose veins, laser removal of such a pathology is as follows. First, the doctor on the leg makes a small incision, after which a fiber guide is inserted into the damaged vein. It is this device that is the source of laser radiation having a certain wavelength. With the help of a laser, all blood is displaced from the vein, as a result of which the walls of the vessels decline and they completely coalesce, and the blood flow in such altered vessels stops completely.

After the operation, blood circulation begins to be carried out in the mainstream of the deep veins located inside the muscle tissue and which are not visible during external examination. Laser coagulation does not leave scars, bruises and other cosmetic defects.

Effects

If laser removal of veins has been carried out, the consequences of such surgery can be as follows:

The occurrence of periodic pain and a burning sensation in the tissues along the cured vein. This happens due to the individual reaction of the body to a burn.
In the area of intervention, a thickening of the tissues can remain for a long time, which resembles a seam after cesarean section.
Hematomas can form along the operated vein due to poor blood coagulability, as well as as a result of errors during the intervention.
Under the knee there is a feeling of tension with full extension of the lower limb.
Often, body temperature rises due to the inflammatory process.
After removing the veins with a laser, a repeated relapse of the disease is possible. This happens if, during laser coagulation, areas of affected perforating veins are unaffected.

Rehabilitation

After laser coagulation, rehabilitation does not require special attention. After the operation, the patient can stand up independently. First, he should sit a bit, then slowly get up. This helps prevent vascular collapse after prolonged lying down. The patient does not feel any pain in the legs, only slight tingling may occur at the injection site.

If laser vein removal was performed, during rehabilitation it is necessary to wear special compression underwear for a long time (2 months), which helps to completely stop the blood flow inside the superficial veins and eliminates edema with varicose veins.

In the first week after the operation, you should not engage in heavy physical exertion, lift weights, visit saunas and baths.