Stripping is no longer the most effective treatment for refluxing veins. Laser ablation is now standard of care. Typically, stripping is a blind procedure, but some surgeons will use ultrasound. The veins you describe are mostly likely reticular veins, and they can be treated cosmetically with sclerotherapy injections. It cannot be determined if these will increase in size and become varicose. People with little body fat can have more noticeable veins.

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You should be able to avoid new bulging varicosities by completing the job. A complete venous ultrasound evaluation is in order here. There may be additional problem(s) to correct and finding the culprits is mandatory.
If you see 'some blue veins near the area where your varicose vein was removed', there may be one or more incompetent veins remaining. We have found foam sclerotherapy the most useful tool to treat the remaining insufficient veins after stripping or phlebotomy.

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Regardless of fitness level, you have inherited varicose veins for which there is no cure. Thus, new veins will always appear slowly over time.

Whether the blue veins you are noticing after GSV stripping are normal or abnormal must first be determined, along with any possible connection to underlying problem veins. Duplex ultrasound examination can give you the answers you seek and confirm success of stripping. Since vein stripping is an outdated procedure in this day and age of non-invasive endovenous procedures, you might want to consult with an experienced vein expert.

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It seems a little early to be developing this but new veins can form and can be treated early on with sclerotherapy.

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When you are pre-disposed to forming veins at any time you can form more veins. You can have the veins treated at any time especially if they bother you

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There are reasons why people should never have their veins stripped. The trauma that the procedure causes can result in something called REVAS. It is when you grow new vein structure in the distribution of where the stripping occurred. Unfortunately all of these new veins are bad. This may be what you are seeing. Your vein treatment, however, is incomplete from my standpoint. Only a small percentage of you vein issues have been addressed based on what you are relaying. Your new blue veins, of course, are also easily treatable.

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Yes early veins can be treated. generally this is much less invasive as well. see your vascular specialist for more information and options like sclerotherapy etc.

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What you describe appear to be blue or reticular veins and these can be treated by sclerotherapy. They will not turn into varicose veins and their cause is genetic more than anything else.

Published on Jul 11, 2012