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Sclerotherapy has been used in the treatment of spider veins and occasionally varicose veins for over 150 years. Like varicose vein surgery, sclerotherapy techniques have evolved during that time. Modern techniques including ultrasonographic guidance and foam sclerotherapy are the latest developments in this evolution.
Polidocanol is also used as a sclerosant, an irritant injected to treat varicose veins, under the trade names Asclera, Aethoxysklerol [5] and Varithena. [6] Polidocanol causes fibrosis inside varicose veins, occluding the lumen of the vessel, and reducing the appearance of the varicosity.
It is commonly used in the treatment of varicose and spider veins of the leg, during the procedure of sclerotherapy. [2] Being a detergent, its action is on the lipid molecules in the cells of the vein wall, causing inflammatory destruction of the internal lining of the vein and thrombus formation eventually leading to sclerosis of the vein. It ...
Local anaesthetic endovenous surgery using the thermoablation (endovenous laser ablation or radiofrequency), perforator closure (TRLOP) and foam sclerotherapy showed an 85% success rate of healing, with no recurrence of healed ulcers at an average of 3.1 years, and a clinical improvement in 98% in a selected group of venous leg ulcers. [48]
CLaCS (Cryo-Laser and Cryo-Sclerotherapy) is a treatment for leg vein lesions by combining transdermal laser effect and injection sclerotherapy, all under skin cooling (Cryo - cold air blown onto the skin at -20C). [1] [2] [3] The laser causes a selective photothermolysis damaging the vein wall. The vein's lumen gets smaller.
Sclerotherapy is often used for telangiectasias (spider veins) and varicose veins that persist or recur after vein stripping. [43] [44] Sclerotherapy can also be performed using foamed sclerosants under ultrasound guidance to treat larger varicose veins, including the great saphenous and small saphenous veins. [45] [46]
A study of 516 treated veins over 69 months by Elmore and Lackey reported a success rate of 98.1%. [ 6 ] Endovenous thermal ablation (EVTA) by radiofrequency or laser is a safe and effective treatment of refluxing great saphenous veins [ 7 ] (GSVs) and has replaced traditional high ligation and stripping in official recommendations of various ...
'Foam sclerotherapy for reticular veins of the dorsal hands: a retrospective review." Dermatol Surg. 2014 Aug;40(8):892-8. doi: 10.1097/DSS.0000000000000076. Massaki AB, Kiripolsky MG, Detwiler SP, Goldman MP (2013). Endoluminal laser delivery mode and wavelength effects on varicose veins in an ex vivo model. Lasers Surg Med. 2013 Feb;45(2):123-9.