Flebectomy

Preparation for phlebectomy begins with a full-time consultation of a phlebologist. The specialist conducts an inspection, checks the absence of contraindications and appoints examinations, according to the results of which an individual treatment plan is drawn up. On the eve of surgical intervention, the patient should not be consumed by alcohol and take some drugs, it is advisable to refuse smoking. In addition, you need to remove the hair in the area where the operation will undergo. If you plan to conduct phlebectomy under anesthesia, then the patient needs to take tests and undergo a preoperative examination.

The doctor makes the cuts in the inguinal or popliteal fold. Then he crosses the section of the transition of the subcutaneous vein into deep and removes the part of the vein subject to varicose veins. After all the manipulations are completed, the wounds are sutured, small cosmetic seams remain on the patient's skin. Special compression stockings are put on their feet. Flebectomy can be carried out under general or local anesthesia. The duration of the operation depends on the individual characteristics of the patient. As a rule, it lasts from one to three hours.

The first day after phlebectomy pass under the supervision of medical personnel - in a hospital. Then the attending physician prescribes the patient, gives him a list of individual recommendations and sets the dates of examinations. Rehabilitation continues at home. Compression stockings need to be worn for three days. Removing the seams occurs on the seventh to twice day after surgery. For two to three weeks, you can not visit the bath, sauna, pool, solarium and gym, take hot baths, lift weights. The early rehabilitation period may be accompanied by the occurrence of bruises in the place where the vein was removed. They pass in a couple of days, but seals in the field of intervention are preserved for up to three weeks. Two months after the operation, an obligatory inspection is carried out, including ultrasound of the vessels.