AboutLauri Ordway Expertise I can answer your questions related to peripheral vacular disorders. This includes all arteries and veins except those inside the head and inside the heart. IE: neck (carotid), arms (carotid subclavian bypases to Thoracic Outlet) belly (aortic aneurysm & occlusive disorders, renal artery stenosis), legs (iliac, femoral, popliteal, peroneal, dorasalis pedis, posterior and anterior tibial) arteries. Aneurysm & occlusive disease, atherosclerosis, leg pain, arterial wounds and gangrene, amputation prevention. Vein disorders: Blood Clots (DVT), post-phlebetic syndrome, varicose veins, venous stasis ulcers. I can help with vascular wound treatments. Also, Raynauds, Buerger`s disease, Thoracic Outlet and other miscellaneous vascular disorders.
I CANNOT answer questions about your heart disease, blood pressure, brain aneurysm, although I can help with questions about the arteries that go to and from those organs.
Experience I am a nurse, I have worked for 14 years with two terrific peripheral vascular surgeons, one of them is also the inventor of very innovative wound care products and surgical instruments to make vascular surgery procedures better and faster. I wrote and manage our clinic website and field questions from patients all over the world.
Expert: Lauri Ordway Date: 5/17/2008 Subject: Help on Vericose Veins
Question Dear ,My wife had swelling on left leg.Colour Doppler test says she has incompetent perforatorsWe rcently got married.No pregnancy.I dont understand the cause of it.Doctor says its Vericose veins.Kindly tell me , what are the treatments.I'm very upset.please help me.
Answer Don't be upset, it is a simple problem, if you think of the deep veins (along the bones and the superficial veins (near skin) then the perforator veins are like the rungs of a ladder connecting the two systems, the deep veins have much higher pressure so when that pressure get out in the superficial system it hurts and causes bulging veins- eventually open sores- nowadays there is a new procedure called VNUS CLOSURE http://www.vnus.com that can fix the problem in minutes in the doctors office, no surgery at all, just a little catheter put into the vein and a catheter slipped into the vein and heated, when the vein is heated, it collapses, constricts and is eliminated. Most insurance companies pay for VNUS CLOSURE but some need preauthorization, go to VNUS website to read about the procedure, then ask your doctor for a referral to a doc who does the closure procedure (there is a list on the VNUS Website)
It is a simple problem, simple solution, if insurance wont pay she can either self pay (we charge about 1,000 / or she can have it done in the operating room (called LINTON procedure) for which insurance will pay. Read your insurance company varicose vein policy and see what there policy is for VV, then make an appointment w/ a surgeon who takes care of veins ONLY so you get an expert. Lauri
