Vein Surgery. This seals off the vein. A bandage is worn for about two weeks to compress the skin and help with healing.
This is an outpatient procedure for most people. This condition is found more often in the legs and feet as there is increased pressure in the veins of the lower body. Vein surgery may be necessary to eliminate varicose veins.
Removing the vein won t adversely affect circulation in your leg because veins deeper in the leg take care of the larger volumes of blood.
This condition is found more often in the legs and feet as there is increased pressure in the veins of the lower body. Rather the vein treatments at our clinics are outpatient ones that typically take less than an hour to complete. In the past surgical stripping to remove the great saphenous vein was the common treatment for varicose veins to remove the great saphenous vein. Vein stripping usually takes about 1 to 1 1 2 hours.
