EVLT: Non-surgical Endovenous Laser Treatment

EVLT is now offered at The Scottsdale Cosmetic Health Insitute as a non-surgical alternative to varicose vein stripping. Twisted, bulging veins can be painful and unsightly and are caused primarily by incompetent valves in the veins. As blood returns from the lower extremities to the heart, these valves prevent blood from "falling" due to gravity back toward the foot. In many men and women, genetics, work history, and other factors can lead to non-functioning valves, forcing blood to pool and, ultimately, creating enlarged, bulging walls in these veins.

Now, EVLT is available. In this process, laser energy is used to target the vein and seal it completely from within the vessel, eliminating the enlarged vessel completely--without surgery. Because blood supplies from the legs are redundant, your body will accommodate for the loss of this vein by using other veins to return blood to the heart. EVLT is an in-office procedure that requires no drugs or anesthesia, but for some local numbing, and patients go home after the approximately one hour process.

EVLT now has three years of clinical data and follow-up and the results are, indeed, impressive. In close to five hundred limbs, the overall success rate is in the ninety-eight percent range, with zero significant complications reported in a multi-center trial. Now with the advent of such safe and effective office based treatments, such as ultrasound guided sclerotherapy and EVLT, the days of hospitalization and missed work are a thing of the past where vein treatment is concerned.

The Scottsdale Cosmetic Health Insitute services the Phoenix and Scottsdale, Arizona area. Our facility is not only famous for Mesotherapy treatments, but is also renowned for its cutting edge medical and cosmetic procedures. For more information on sclerotherapy and spider vein removal, please contact us.