Varicose Veins: Laser, Foam, and Surgery Equally Effective

Varicose Veins: Laser, Foam, and Surgery Equally Effective

Varicose veins can be treated with foam, laser, or surgery. All treatments have a similar clinical efficacy (venous clinical severity score), and all are equally able to improve general patient quality of life at 6 months, according to a new study.

Julie Brittenden, MD, from the Division of Applied Medicine at the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom, and colleagues published the results of their randomized trial online September 25 in the New England Journal of Medicine. Theirs was a multicenter study that included 785 patients with primary varicose veins.

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