Vein Center in New Jersey Discusses Vein Conditions and Treatment Options

Varicose veins are large blood vessels that protrude out of the skin’s surface. They look like large tree trunks or like dense masses of twisted, tangled, and knotted ropes. Unlike spider veins, varicose veins are always caused by underlying venous insufficiency. Furthermore, the presence of varicose veins indicates advanced vein disease.

What are the earliest signs and symptoms of vein conditions?

The presence of varicose veins and spider veins is an indication of advanced venous insufficiency. You should ideally identify and diagnose vein disease long before you get varicose veins. However, venous insufficiency is an extremely under-diagnosed disease because its initial signs and symptoms can be misattributed to aging and exhaustion.

Some of the earliest signs and symptoms of vein disease include leg pain, restless leg syndrome, frequent leg cramps, throbbing leg veins, leg swelling, and spider veins. Most of these vein conditions are extremely mild, but you should consult vein specialists anyway because venous insufficiency is a chronic condition, i.e., it inevitably worsens over time. You should also note that these vein conditions worsen at the end of the day or after a long period of sitting or standing still.

What happens if you don’t diagnose or treat spider veins and varicose veins?

You may eventually suffer from advanced vein conditions if you don’t diagnose or treat spider veins and varicose veins promptly. Over time, blood will continue accumulating in your leg veins, leading to over-dilation of varicose veins, leading to profuse bleeding. If your varicose veins burst, you have to be taken to the emergency room.

Besides burst varicose veins, you also suffer from several other advanced vein conditions, including skin disease, skin discoloration, leg ulcers due to the lack of effective blood circulation in your legs, and deep vein thrombosis. The last of these — deep vein thrombosis — is especially dangerous because it refers to blood clots forming within your leg veins, which may eventually break away and travel to your lungs, leading to a potentially fatal condition called pulmonary embolism.

What are the best minimally invasive vein treatment options for varicose veins and spider veins?

Our vein treatment center never recommends vascular surgery for varicose veins and spider veins. Vascular surgery used to be the preferred treatment for vein conditions, but the development of advanced techniques and technologies has made it unnecessary and obsolete.

At Vein Treatment Clinic, our board-certified vein specialists carefully diagnose the root cause of your varicose veins and spider veins to recommend the ideal minimally invasive treatment options, including radiofrequency ablation, endovenous laser ablation, VenaSeal, ambulatory phlebectomy, and sclerotherapy.

Step 1: Diagnosing the root cause of varicose veins and spider veins.

During the initial consultation, the vein doctors examine your varicose veins and spider veins, discuss your medical history, and look for signs and symptoms of venous insufficiency. They administer a Duplex Ultrasound test to visualize the blood flow in your leg veins, identifying the diseased saphenous vein.

Step 2: Minimally invasive vein treatments for vein disease.

During minimally invasive vein treatments, our vein specialists use catheters or injections to deliver thermal energy (radiofrequency ablation), laser energy (endovenous laser ablation), or medical adhesives (VenaSeal) into the diseased saphenous vein. These methods collapse or close the diseased vein, restoring smooth blood circulation to the heart.

Step 3: Minimally invasive treatment options for superficial varicose veins and spider veins.

After the minimally invasive vein treatments, the vein doctors use ambulatory phlebectomy or sclerotherapy to remove the superficial varicose veins and spider veins. Sclerotherapy is a procedure in which a sclerosant solution is injected into the spider veins to harden their vein walls, turning them into scar tissues that eventually get absorbed by the body.

Consult board-certified vein doctors in New Jersey today.

Vein Treatment Clinic is the best state-of-the-art vein center in New Jersey, with offices in Clifton and Paramus. Our Clifton vein center is located near the garden state parkway, just past the Ford dealership on Route 46 E. Our Paramus vein center is just off NJ-17, next door to Bob’s Furniture. For more information, please schedule an appointment with our vein specialists in New Jersey today.

To learn more about our accredited vein centers, please visit www.veintreatmentclinic.com. Our spider and varicose vein treatment clinics are certified by the IAC as vascular imaging centers and vein treatment centers of excellence. We have local affiliates in New York, Long Island, New Jersey, Texas and California, all of which are held to the highest standards of patient-centered, compassionate, care. We offer the latest technology at every location, and our harvard-trained medical directors lead a collaborative effort to ensure the best outcome for every patient we meet.