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Welcome to Veincentre

“Be proud of your legs!”

Yes, you can - with our modern minimally invasive outpatient techniques to remove all types of varicose veins.

Veincentre currently operates in three main locations
1. North Staffs Nuffield Hospital which is located in Newcastle under Lyme just off junction 15 of the M6
2. Assura Medical Macclesfield just opposite the railway station
3. Knaresborough Place Medical Chambers, South Kensington

We offer a discrete, comprehensive, minimally invasive, non-surgical, outpatient based diagnosis and treatment service for all types of varicose vein.

Most varicose veins of the legs are never treated. The mainstay of treatment for those that are remains surgery, most commonly tying and stripping. Such surgery is very effective in most cases and most patients are pleased with the results but it is far from perfect. It is expensive, time consuming, uncomfortable at best and usually requires a general anaesthetic. Patients need significant time off work and play whilst they convalesce. Scars are inevitable and recurrence of symptoms and varicose veins occurs in at least 10% of patients after surgery.

Over recent years several new interventional radiological (minimally invasive ultrasound guided) techniques have been developed to replace surgery for this common problem and provide an effective treatment for all veins even those which are apparently minor and causing cosmetic problems only for which many patients are unwilling to have an operation. There are three main techniques (foam sclerotherapy, VNUS Closure® and laser ablation) all of which are producing very encouraging results even for difficult recurrent varicose veins.

Varicose veins also occur in other unusual sites . In the scrotum for example they cause a “bag of worms” swelling called a varicocoele which can be painful and reduce fertility and in the female pelvis they are responsible for much undiagnosed pelvic pain as well as obvious vulval and clitoral varices. Both these types of varices can be easily treated by an outpatient technique called embolisation.


Designed by Limelight

The deliberate obstruction (destruction) of blood vessels, usually carried out under x-ray guidance using tiny thin walled catheters (plastic tubes) is used to treat a variety of illnesses.

Distended unsightly veins around the female external genital organs.
Vulval and Clitoral Varices

The sac which holds a mans testicles outside the body.

Returning sometime after a successful initial treatment.

Laser AblationA new minimally invasive technique to remove abnormal veins. It uses a thin laser fibre inserted directly into the vein through a needle puncture to heat up the vein wall and destroy it. The original technique (EVLT) was developed by Dr Robert Min of Cornell Vascular. Other laser manufacturers have since copied the idea. eg. ELVeS
www.evlt.com

A minimally invasive technique to remove damaged veins. It uses radio energy delivered through a fine instrument inside the vein to heat and destroy the vein walls.

The treatment of varicose veins - by finding the diseased veins with ultrasound scanning and injecting a toxic chemical mixed into a foam to displace the blood in the vein. This causes the wall of the vein to contract and seal up.

Sclerosant like STD have been used for many years to inject varicose veins. They work quite well for small veins, especially below the knee where good compression can be applied. However, if the underlying reflux is not dealt with the varicose veins will just come back. More recently it has been discovered that mixing the STD sclerosant with air, or CO2 into a foam leads to a more effective closure of the veins. Some doctors are using this foam and injecting it into the large superficial veins like the great saphenous vein to destroy this and thus eliminate the reflux. This does work in some patients but not nearly so effectively as laser for the large veins like the GSV.

We do find the foam very effective at dealing with any small varicose veins still remaining after the GSV and the reflux has been destroyed by the laser.

This refers to techniques which use safe and painless ultrasound scanning to guide instruments precisely into position without being able to see them directly with the naked eye.

A description of a range of treatments which use modern medical imaging tools to guide instruments precisely into position to effect treatment.