Vein Treatments in Walnut Creek, CA

Developed over 40 years ago in Europe, sclerotherapy at Elite Vein Specialists utilizes only FDA-approved drugs to close undesired veins. It is a simple, nearly painless, vessel injection technique that causes vein closure. Veins most commonly treated are leg spider veins, blue-green veins (that often are the blood supply to nests of spider veins), and varicose veins. Other successful areas for sclerotherapy include hands, breasts, and small spiders on the shoulders or back. A treatment session typically lasts 30 minutes after which stockings are applied and walking for 20-30 minutes occurs to complete the session. Patients often benefit if they also have leg fatigue or pain due to vein disease.

All diseased veins – from the most extensive varicose veins to the tiniest of spiders – are caused by abnormal blood leakage through faulty valves inside veins deep beneath the skin’s surface. Over time, this abnormal leakage of blood, also called reflux, causes veins visible on the skin surface to dilate and turn into diseased veins we call varicose veins and spiders. For sclerotherapy to be successful, the source of this venous reflux must be identified by the treating doctor and injected or treated with a sclerosing solution so the varicose vein caused by this leakage will disappear. Often the source of reflux causing varicose veins and even spiders is much deeper than can be reached by injecting from the skin surface. Since conventional sclerotherapy is done right on the skin’s surface, regular sclerotherapy will not be effective in treating veins caused by such a source of reflux. We also offer ultrasound-guided sclerotherapy. Ultrasound can see below the surface of the skin! If abnormal veins deep under the skin can be visualized with the ultrasound machine, then Dr. O’Hare can successfully guide a needle directly into the source of reflux and treat that source. The result is the complete disappearance of the varicose vein originating from that source.