Surgical treatment of varicose veins

  I. Traditional treatment High ligation and stripping: The main trunk of the saphenous vein is revealed below the inguinal ligament, the branches are ligated, and the main trunk of the vein is withdrawn with a vein stripper. Long-term clinical practice has confirmed that the surgical treatment of saphenous varicose vein with high ligation and stripping is effective and suitable for all levels of hospitals. However, there are many incisions and long incisions, trauma, bleeding, long hospital stay, serious impact on the morphology of the affected limb, permanent or temporary damage to the saphenous nerve in 23%-60% of cases, and lymphatic vessel injury edema. Foreign reports show that the short-term efficiency of high ligation + stripping is 94%, but the long-term effect is poor and the recurrence rate is high. Recent study showed that 58% of patients with saphenous nerve damage had saphenous vein stripping from inguinal to ankle level, 40% of patients had saphenous nerve damage conscious symptoms, and only 6.7% of patients had quality of life affected by saphenous nerve damage.  Sclerotherapy is a hypertonic solution, 5% sodium cod liver oil and phenol glycerol, which cause aseptic inflammation of the vascular endothelial cells. The cells are crumpled due to enzyme metabolism disorder and nutrition disorder, and eventually replaced by fibrous connective tissue and fibrous occlusion of veins to achieve the purpose of varicose vein atrophy. The advantages of sclerotherapy are simple operation, less patient pain, no hospitalization, low cost, especially for the treatment of limited varicose veins, and can meet the psychological needs of patients who do not want surgery and consider limb “cosmetic”. The disadvantage is that it can’t block the backflow of the main veins and the traffic veins at a high level, and it has a high recurrence rate, and serious complications such as deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism can occur.  Laser treatment Laser energy is transmitted by a single fiber, and different power and modes can be used to achieve significant and highly controllable results. For soft tissue excision, vaporization, coagulation can use bare optical fiber to contact the tissue, when the fiber contact with the tissue to produce thermal effects, with minimal penetration and minimal damage, so as to achieve the purpose of treatment. Its advantages: 1, minimally invasive surgery, small and few incisions, or no incisions, less bleeding less trauma, less scarring and postoperative infection.  2, rapid recovery: short operation time, mild postoperative pain, patients can maintain normal activities after surgery, fast recovery, short hospital stay.  3.Aesthetics after surgery: The traditional saphenous varicose vein aspiration scars are abandoned and the aesthetic effect is achieved.  4.Less complications: With high efficiency and safety, it rarely causes serious complications.  4.Transilluminated spinotomy The cold light source guides the operation under direct vision, and the planer head directly planes and sucks the diseased vein without residue, and the treatment is complete; it is inserted subconsciously by normal tissues, avoiding the direct operation over the diseased tissues such as eczema, dermatitis, pigment and ulcer, and avoiding the delayed healing of the incision; the tissue around the superficial vein thrombosis is edematous and adherent due to sterile inflammation.