How to Prevent Blood Clots
While a telemedicine visit can be helpful, most times a face-to-face visit allows us to examine your leg and do an ultrasound in the office.
While a telemedicine visit can be helpful, most times a face-to-face visit allows us to examine your leg and do an ultrasound in the office.
Learn more about blood clots and their relationship to varicose veins by scheduling an evaluation with your local vascular surgery expert who can help you un...
Patients are not always aware of the risks and dangers of untreated varicose veins, but as a progressive medical condition, these abnormal veins can cause a ...
The study in the Venous Times confirms that within the first six weeks after delivery, clot risk remains high due to elevated hormone levels. As to the incre...
Fortunately, treatment is highly effective, long lasting and simply done in the office under local anesthesia. Importantly, your insurance plan often cover t...
It's important to understand that varicose veins involve disordered and turbulent blood flow that encourages clot formation. Commonly large surface varicose ...
Reducing your risk of blood clots is critically important and eliminating the risk posed by varicose veins is easily done using office based procedures.
It is important to understand that varicose veins are a significant health risk that progresses with time as gravity continues to stress the weak veins.
Either Dr. Rosenberg or Dr. McNeill will be happy to evaluate your hands and discuss the best option to treat them most effectively.
We also know that same patients with phlebitis have genetic reasons for clotting, and we may order specialized blood tests to identify patients who are at hi...
The Vein Summit was held in Phoenix and was attended by 30 physicians from across the country who came to learn how best to approach patients with varicose v...
When Harrison asked “What can you do? Who are candidates to have the kind of treatment you’re talking about?” Dr. McNeill explained, “The actual process of v...
Even without visible varicosities, her history was significant enough that I felt a duplex ultrasound exam was necessary to investigate venous reflux. As exp...
The patient had seen her OB/GYN a year ago and asked about treatment options, but was advised to wait until she's done with pregnancies to have her vein issu...
The patient is a bus driver who initially saw me almost a year ago with lower leg varicose veins that were causing itching and mild aching. Her venous ultra...
Dr. McNeill and I were part of a very select group of clinical investigators who studied the newly approved VarithenaTM treatment for varicose veins. This me...
Our board certified physicians and experts in venous care, Garth Rosenberg, MD and Paul McNeill, MD, have many years of experience with these conditions. Th...
Many patients - including the one pictured here - come to us because they're experiencing symptoms of phlebitis, not because they have varicose veins. Howeve...
The common procedures of VNUS Closure, ClariVein and microphlebectomy are often well covered by medical insurance.
The key take-away is that DVTs are the riskier of the two conditions. That is why patients are immediately put on blood thinners when this is identified.
Despite the significant risk of DVT, and the recognition of the health impact by the World Health Organization (WHO), very few airlines actually advise patie...