Common Side Effects Of Varicose Vein Surgery

You might feel side effects after your treatment.

Common side effects of varicose vein surgery.

The study complications of varicose vein surgery ann r coll surg engl. Your surgeon uses a thin video camera inserted in your leg to visualize and close varicose veins and then removes the veins through small incisions. Rfa is a type of thermal treatment so side effects are typically related to heat delivery to adjacent structures. The common side effects of an ablation are.

Skin infection or abscess 2 8. Bruising swelling and lumps and bumps due to the vein clotting post procedure or trapped blood from the microphlebectomies. These side effects include thermal injury to the skin nerves muscles or other soft tissues next to the vein. A less common side effect for some patients is numbness along the shins.

The procedure typically takes 60 to 90 minutes. Leakage of lymph a milky fluid from the groin 0 9. Keep in mind that like any other surgery varicose vein surgery will also have some of its complications and side effects that you can expect after having varicose vein surgery. Sclerotherapy is also an office based treatment but performed primarily for spider veins and smaller varicose veins.

Common side effects of sclerotherapy. Thermal ablation is a common procedure to remove varicose veins in the legs of patients. It involves injecting a solution directly into the vein which causes the vein to close and eventually fade. Sclerotherapy is typically performed on the legs for conditions such as telangiectasis venulectasias and reticular ectasias all of which are different kinds of varicosites.

Varicose vein stripping is often done on an outpatient basis which means you ll be able to go home the same day as the surgery. The most common are swelling bruising change in skin color and pain. Sclerotherapy is a procedure in which a solution called sclerosing agent is injected into the veins for treatment of small vessel varicose disease varicose veins. The most significant complication that arises from varicose vein surgery is that of a blood clot forming in the veins.

Other side effects could be. Nerve damage numbness or tingling 6 6. 1997 mar looked at almost 1 000 patients in a busy surgical unit and found the following. Numbness due to nerve irritation or drainage from the tiny holes made for the tumescent anesthesia.

Pain blood clots and bruising are common side effects of ablation used in treating varicose veins. Deep vein thrombosis dvt 0 5. You re more likely to have serious side effects if you ve had vein. Radiofrequency ablation rfa includes procedures like closurefast venefit and vnus procedures.