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Venous surgery may be a procedure done to treat vein blockages. Large veins that are narrowed or blocked will cause severe swelling and pain. Sometimes a metal mesh tube referred to as a tubing may be placed into the vein to carry it openly. This procedure is completed by a specially trained doctor referred to as an associate interventional medical specialist.
The Procedure is as follows-

An IV line is placed into a vein in your arm or hand. This is to give you fluids and medicines. You may incline medication to assist you to relax. Medicine is placed on the skin at the insertion web site to numb it.

  • A very little cut or incision is formed over the insertion web site. Then a needle with a thin guide wire is put through your skin into the vein. A thin, flexible tube called a catheter is put over the guide wire into the blood vessel. X-ray dye is injected into your blood vessel. This helps the veins show up clearly on X-ray pictures. The radiologist uses these images as a guide. He or she moves the tubing to the narrowed or blocked a part of the vein.
  • When the catheter reaches the narrowed or blocked area, the radiologist inflates a special balloon that is attached to the catheter (angioplasty). This widens the passage through the vein. Tubing is also placed inside to carry the vein open.
  • To do this, a tube with a stent connected is threaded over the guide wire. The tubing is opened once it reaches the narrowed space. The stent stays in the vein. The catheters and balloons are taken out.

 

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