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Non-Surgical Cure for Varicose Veins
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Business New Haven
12/11/2000
By: BNH
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NEW HAVEN - Ridding legs of varicose veins has become easier. A new, non-surgical treatment is being offered at Yale-New Haven Hospital that can be performed on an outpatient basis and typically takes only 45 minutes, the hospital reports.
Called “Closure,” the treatment uses heat in the form of radio frequency energy to collapse and seal veins. It is performed with a local anesthetic and is less invasive than traditional vein-stripping, which requires general or regional anesthesia for a surgical incision in the groin to tie off a damaged vein, and another incision in the calf to remove the vein.
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