International workshop on varicose veins from Aug 4 to 7

Mohali, August 4, 2014: An international workshop on varicose veins is being held to update doctors about advancement in treatment of venous diseases from August 4 to 7 at Mohali.

The Venous Association of India in collaboration with Vascular Society of Limb Salvage is organizing this workshop on varicose veins and chronic venous insufficiency.

In a press conference held here, Dr.Ravul Jindal, National Secretary of Venous Association of India and Director of vascular surgery at Fortis Hospital, Mohali said that purpose of this workshop is to enlighten experts and young doctors about vascular diseases. The event will have twenty live surgeries beamed live to give doctors hands on experience on conducting the procedures.

“This is a vital area of medical science which has till date remained misunderstood and misrepresented by even the medical fraternity who finds it difficult to differentiate between heart and venous system,” he said adding that around 50 doctors from all over country will be a part of this workshop that will brush knowledge on varicose veins – a commonly found – but not often detected disease.

The international guest faculty including Prof. Jean-Francois UHL (France), Vascular Surgeon from Department of Anatomy, University Paris who is also the Vice President of French Society of Phlebology along with Dr Jean – Patrick Bengini and Dr Jean Marc Diamant, vascular surgeons from France, will address the participants.

Indian guest faculty members at the event will be Dr. Ravul Jindal, Dr Adarsh Swami, Dr Ladbans Kaur, Dr U P Singh, Dr Ashwani Sharma and Dr H S Bedi.

Dr Ravul Jindal said that the workshop would dwell on different aspects of varicose veins. “We will show more than twenty live cases including laser and radiofrequency ablation of varicose veins, foam sclerotherapy, ultrasound guided puncture of various vessels of the body along with anastomotic workshop,” he added.

What are varicose veins?

Elaborating on the problem of varicose veins he said that varicose were bulging veins that large 3 mm or more in diameter. Varicose veins was a frequently occurring condition with up to 10percentile of the women and men getting affected with symptoms of fatigue, pain and swelling of the lower limbs.

These are usually characterized by aching and heavy legs (often worse at night and after exercise), appearance of spider veins in the affected leg, ankle swelling, dilated bluish bulge under the skin, redness, dryness, and itchiness of areas of skin due to waste products building up in leg. In some people skin above ankle may shrink because fat underneath skin becomes hard.

Symptoms:

The symptoms also include whitened, irregular scar-like patches can appear at the ankles or patient can have chronic non-healing ulcers.

He warned that patients having unattractive, enlarged blue or purple veins on thigh or calf, you may be suffering from varicose veins.

Why worry?

The disease marks indication of a malfunction of venous system and should be evaluated by vascular surgery specialist. This usually affects those who work standing for long hours such as traffic policemen and housewives. Most of the times its causes are not known.

If not treated early this can result in chronic venous. Even though disease is not life threatening it can be debilitating, if not treated at proper stage. Patient at later stage can present with very painful ulcers that take long time to manage. Common misconceptions like varicose veins cannot be treated or they reoccur in every patient needs to be corrected. If the disease is not properly evaluated and operated by an inexperienced surgeon, chances of reoccurrence of varicose arises.