爆破 of steam to end the 苦痛 of varicose veins

By ROGER DOBSON FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY
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A 装置 that’s smaller than a ?matchstick and sp rays 最高の-hot steam into 血 大型船s is the 最新の ?治療 for painful varicose veins.

The steam ablation 治療 has proven 効果的な in 縮むing and destroying swollen veins.

One week after the 治療, all the veins the 装置 were used on were 封鎖するd, with no 血 flowing through them. 研究員s say the 治療 has より小数の 味方する-影響s than other therapies.

Varicose veins are 大きくするd veins, usually blue or dark purple in colour. They develop when small 弁s inside the vein stops working 適切に, ?主要な to 血 pooling in the area.

It’s not known why the 弁s 弱める, although there are a number of 危険 factors, 含むing gender ― women are twice as likely to get them, かもしれない because oestrogen seems to have a relaxing 影響 on vein 塀で囲むs, making the 弁s more 傾向がある to 漏れるing.

Other 危険 factors 含む a family history of the problem, 存在 ?overweight and having a 職業 ?伴う／関わるing a lot of standing. 同様に as ?aching, swollen and ?painful 脚s, there can be ?複雑化s such as 肌 ?discolouration and 脚 ulcers in rare 事例／患者s.

More than 40,000 手続きs to 取り組む varicose veins are carried out in the NHS each year. A number of 治療s are used, 含むing ?外科 under general anaesthetic to 除去する the vein, and レーザー and 無線で通信する frequency, where the vein is heated and destroyed.

The Steam Vein Sclerosis (SVS) ?system consists of a steam 発生させる人（物） and handpiece that 注入するs tiny pulses or puffs of steam 経由で a catheter into the vein.

The 治療, carried out under 地元の anaesthetic, produces ?気温s of up to 120c to heat the vein, 原因（となる）ing the 塀で囲むs to 崩壊（する）. The catheter is slowly pulled 支援する to 扱う／治療する all of the vein.

Results from the 熟考する／考慮する at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, 示唆する it can be 高度に 効果的な. The 熟考する／考慮する 伴う／関わるd 19 患者s ― and all the 扱う／治療するd veins were 封鎖するd after one week. There were also no 事例／患者s of 深い vein thrombosis, 肌 燃やすs, 神経 傷害, 感染s, or 肌 pigmentation.

Seven months later, 13 of the 20 veins remained の近くにd. A 熟考する／考慮する of the 装置 is now 進行中で at four ?centres in フラン, and it could be more 広範囲にわたって 利用できる within a year or so.

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