Spider Veins

on the Leg

About Spider Veins

Spider veins can appear when blood collects in the vein instead of being pumped directly to the heart. Spider veins are smaller and are often red or blue in color. They can look like a tree branch or spider web with their short jagged lines. They are most commonly found on the legs or face. Spider veins are more common in women than men.

Spider Vein Treatment

Spider veins are most often treated with one of several non-surgical treatments. The most common treatment is called Sclerotherapy, where a solution is injected into the vein that seals it shut. The vein then turns into scar tissue, and color and inflammation of the vein usually fade in a few weeks. There is a new type of this therapy being used called microsclerotherapy which uses specialized solutions and injection techniques. Some doctors use an electrical current rather than injections to seal the vein; this is called Electrodesiccation. Finally, laser surgery is sometimes used, especially on the face. In this treatment, strong bursts of light are sent into the vein, causing it to slowly fade and disappear.

Hep C Vets, Bleeding esophageal varices

...nine trials comparing beta blockade plus sclerotherapy with sclerotherapy alone (1.....is critical because of the high risk of death with each episode of variceal.....The Veterans ...

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Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunts Compared with Endoscopi

... TIPS group and 8 in the sclerotherapy group), portal gastropathy (1 patient in ... In the sclerotherapy group, three patients died of variceal hemorrhage. One death occurred because of ...

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Table of NNTs [April 1998; 50-8]

...Endoscopic ligation.. intervention.. sclerotherapy.. Prevention of one re-bleeding.....plus placebo) first clinical event (AIDS or death) 19 (12 to 50) Bandolier 44.. Angina.....Cook D. ...

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Arch Surg -- Abstract: Variceal Rebleeding and Recurrence After Endosc

11, November 2000. Featured Link. Article Options. Literature Track. Topic Collections. Variceal Rebleeding and Recurrence After Endoscopic Injection Sclerotherapy. A Prospective Evaluation ...

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PCCU Volume 18, Lesson 18

... techniques used to control bleeding include sclerotherapy, band ligation, and use of cyanoacrylate glue ... and 10 would require ligation instead of sclerotherapy to prevent one death ...

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Postgraduate Medicine: Bleeding esophageal varices

...nine trials comparing beta blockade plus sclerotherapy with sclerotherapy alone (1.....is critical because of the high risk of death with each episode of variceal.....The Veterans ...

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Portal Hypertension - Pedihepa Sokal

...cause decompensation of the liver disease, ascitis, sepsis , renal failure, and eventually patient's death . Sclerotherapy is able to control...

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http://www.ncemi.org/biblio/dvt-pe.txt

... insufficiency was the major cause of death in 7% and a contributory factor in 3%. Ref ID ... VEINS; VEINS; VENOUS; SURGERY; MANAGEMENT; SCLEROTHERAPY; COMPLICATIONS; INCIDENTS; DEEP ...

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Assessing the effects of treatment: measures of association

...risk (in this case, the risk of death after sclerotherapy). From Table 1, the formula for.....is about two thirds as great as the risk of death after sclerotherapy. [ Top of ...

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Endoscopic Ligation Compared with Sclerotherapy for Treatment of Esoph

... Synthesis: Ligation therapy compared with sclerotherapy reduced the rebleeding rate (odds ... ligation instead of sclerotherapy to prevent one death. Esophageal strictures occurred ...

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NEJM -- Sclerotherapy with or without Octreotide for Acute Variceal...

...bleeding is still associated with a high risk of rebleeding and death. We compared sclerotherapy alone with sclerotherapy and octreotide to...

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Upper GI bleed: varices: adding octreotide to sclerotherapy reduced...

Upper GI bleed: varices: adding octreotide to sclerotherapy reduced rebleeding and death Clinical bottom line (level 1b)

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Bleeding Oesophageal Varices

... Variceal haemorrhage remains a leading cause of death in patients with liver cirrhosis, with mortality from ... Octreotide infusion or emergency sclerotherapy for variceal haemorrhage ...

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NEJM -- Nadolol plus Isosorbide Mononitrate Compared with Sclerotherap

... for rebleeding and death. We compared the efficacy and safety of endoscopic sclerotherapy with the efficacy ... group and 23 in the sclerotherapy group had rebleeding. The actuarial ...

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Upper GI bleed: isosorbide mononitrate reduced rebleeds and death...

Upper GI bleed: isosorbide mononitrate reduced rebleeds and death during sclerotherapy to eradicate varices Clinical bottom line (level 1b)

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