Sutton Coldfield brides-to-be are being advised by experts to address any varicose or thread veins they may have in plenty of time for their big day.

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 ...

However, in those patients who do not experience resolution, they will incur the need for an additional procedure. By contrast, performing both ablation and varicose vein phlebectomy concomitantly ...

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 ...

Radiofrequency ablation is sometimes recommended to treat larger or more widespread varicose veins. This minimally invasive ...

They usually aren't serious. Sclerotherapy uses an injection of a special chemical (sclerosant) into a varicose vein to damage and scar the inside lining of the vein. This causes the vein to close.

In a normal leg with no varicose veins ... that although both procedures have clinical and quality of life improvements at six weeks, patients treated with radiofrequency ablation reported ...