Closure ablation. Ablation involves the insertion of a thin, flexible tube called a catheter inserted into a varicose vein. The tip of the catheter heats the walls of the varicose vein using ...

Varicose veins are an early manifestation ... and stripping of the great saphenous vein largely a historic procedure. Endovenous ablation using catheter-based techniques achieve vein closure ...

varicose veins, and migraine, among others. Healthcare providers such as radiologists, cardiologists, neurologists, or surgeons perform this procedure. An ablation procedure uses extreme heat ...

But ablation won’t remove varicose veins. For that, you’ll have to have sclerotherapy, an office procedure where a surgeon injects a substance called a sclerosant into the veins to break them ...

As a result of superficial valve incompetence, high pressure is transmitted to small subcutaneous veins, which become dilated tortuous clusters of varicose veins (Figure 1B). Although valve reflux ...