- 45 million American’s suffer from venous disease.
- Venous disease is four times more prevalent in patients than arterial disease, which affects only 5% of the population.
- The symptoms of venous disease, include lower extremity pain, swelling, varicose veins, restless legs, skin changes and ulcerations.
- Heredity is the number one cause of venous disease and is common in both men and women.
- Venous disease impacts patients across all age groups and increases with age.
- Less than 3% of the patients, who suffer from this chronic disease, have been treated.
- Ligation or stripping of diseased veins is no longer the acceptable standard of care within the medical community.
- A new minimally invasive procedure approved by the FDA, endovenous thermal ablation, is the gold standard of care for the treatment of venous disease.
- Endovenous thermal ablation is performed as an outpatient using local anesthesia only and patients return to their routine activities of daily living immediately following the procedure.
- Endovenous thermal ablation has a 99% success rate and a complication rate of less than 1%.