Laserklinik DRes Steinert

Venous diseases are changes of vessels that carry deoxygenated blood from the tissue back towards the heart. These vessels do amazing things: they transport blood against the force of gravity from the legs back towards the chest. It is carried out with the help of claps (valves), as well as through contracting and relaxing the leg musculature.

How to prevent venous diseases?
Movement is important due to the fact that musculature plays a great role.
As well as weight reduction or keeping up your normal weight.
From time to time relieve you veins from the force of gravity and put your feet up!

In summer a cold shower can help you reduce the heat accumulated in your legs.

Nevertheless, predisposition to venous problems can be caused alone by inheritance.

What should be done, if there are already visible varicose veins or spider veins?
Our spectrum includes:

- Diagnostics and treatment of venous problems
- Outpatient operations on varicose veins, including endovascular laser technology
- Sclerosing treatment of small varicose veins and spider veins
- Laser treatment of the finest spider veins
- Stem veins can also be treated by means of laser radiation from the inside out.

So we ensure that in the case of varicose vein surgery just a few incisions will be made.
Endovascular laser technique employs a glass fibre, which, after puncturing the stem vein, is introduced in the direction from the knee up into the vein and, while emitting laser pulses, is pulled again down the course of the vein. It results in a small cut on the puncture site.
Due to the fact that it is particularly women, who appreciate the assets of this advantageous method and often demonstrate the results of the operation to their friends and acquaintances, you should not be surprised that our patients come from all over Germany to be treated here. We also have patients from abroad.

Diagnostics of vein problems:
To begin with, we will find out with the help of numerous examination methods, whether there is really any vein problem or what kind of vein problem it is. These methods include light reflection rheography, measuring venous pump function, and ultrasound scan, detecting the damaged flaps in the venous system.

Outpatient operations:
For healthy patients and those taken care of at home we offer varicose vein surgery on an outpatient basis. The patient will spend about 5 hours in our practice clinic, will be operated on under the supervision of an anaesthesiologist and will subsequently stay in our premises for control. If necessary, it is possible to stay in our private clinic overnight.

Inpatient operations:
For patients with accompanying diseases or those who have nobody at home to look after them, we offer varicose vein surgery with the following inpatient care. On the day of the operation the patient will be admitted to the inpatient department of our clinic, and a few days later he can normally go home again.

Sclerosing treatment
Sclerosing treatment is applied for smaller varicose veins and spider veins and is carried out through injecting an agent into the veins, which makes them adhere.

Laser treatment:
The smallest spider veins are treated with the help of a laser device. During a personal consultation, we will be glad to answer all of your questions.

Spider veins are always the expression of predisposition
Slight venous changes occur in the form of the so-called spider veins, which represent the dilation of the smallest venous vessels lying directly on the skin.
Sooner or later almost every woman and a great number of men observe these changes, especially on lower legs. There are no complaints at the stage of vessel changes and the removal is performed just for aesthetically disturbing reasons.
The weakness together with dilation and tortuosity of the visible veins may progress and affect ever larger vessels. Without effective counteractive measures or medical therapy the complaints may worsen and, thus, lead to the appearance of prominent varicose veins or even lower leg ulcers (so-called ulcus cruris).
However, there are people, who never experience any further venous weakness, except for spider veins.
A distinction is made between the so-called symptomatic spider veins, characterised by all signs of chronic venous insufficiency (CVI), and those of unknown origin. They are referred to as idiopathic spider veins.
Symptomatic spider veins should not be treated primarily. Here it is first of all important to diagnose the underlying disease (varicose veins) exactly and to treat it respectively. Only then it is reasonable to destroy the belonging spider veins. It is only idiopathic spider veins with merely cosmetic relevance that can immediately undergo sclerotherapy or laser treatment, because only these treatments ensure long-lasting effects. Depending on the calibre, a mere laser treatment, sclerotherapy or a combination of sclerotherapy and laser treatment will come into question.
Conventional sclerotherapy by means of injection always produces better results with spider veins having a diameter of more than 1 mm. A combination of laser therapy and sclerotherapy will be the method of choice for treating veins of a smaller diameter. Different kinds of a pulsed laser are available for that. The wavelength and the pulse width will be adapted to the diameter and the depth of the vessels.
After the treatment a self-adhesive pressure bandage will be applied.
Aftertreatments are possible in a week after the sclerotherapy and in 2-3 weeks after the laser sclerotherapy. The best time of year for the treatment is between October and March.