What is cryo-sclerotherapy?

The conventional treatment for varicose veins is effective but uncomfortable. Luis Navarro, MD, describes cryo-sclerotherapy and explains why it is an improvement.

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The procedure is done through little needles, but although not really painful, it's really uncomfortable.

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I use cryotherapy. It's the addition of cold to the treatment of sclerotherapy. [MUSIC PLAYING]

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Sclerotherapy consists in the injection of a chemical compound into the vein that irritates

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the inner lining of the vein. The vein scars down, collapses, and disappears,

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and the blot is rerouted through a healthy vein. Now, the procedure is done through little needles,

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but although not really painful, it's really uncomfortable.

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So the addition of cold converts the procedure-- completely painless-- so instead of the regular 14 injections

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that you get on a treatment, you can get 80 or 120 injections, and you can have the treatment two,

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three times in a single day and on consecutive days, so that in two or three days, we can

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achieve results that usually will take four to six months on biweekly visits.