Butler Health System gets latest varicose vein treatment procedure
Varicose vein treatment has advanced from surgery requiring months of recovery to an outpatient procedure performed in about 30 minutes, leaving only a small incision covered with a bandage.
Dr. Brandon Repko, medical director of nuclear imaging and therapeutic services at the Butler Health System, said the treatment was recently approved by the American Medical Society and by Medicare, and he is looking forward to using it.
He described it as a paradigm change in varicose vein treatment.
The treatment relies on the use of a viscous medical glue made from the same ingredients in Super Glue.
“What this is, is Super Glue. We Super Glue the vein shut,” Repko said.
To learn more about the health affects of varicose veins, read Sunday’s Butler Eagle.
