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What is the Main Cause of Varicose Veins?
Despite common belief, varicose veins (varicosities) are not a disease in themselves but rather a symptom of an underlying condition known as chronic venous insufficiency (CVI). Essentially, CVI is caused by venous valve dysfunction—often referred to as venous reflux—which prevents the blood from efficiently returning to the heart. While everyone with CVI has some form of varicose veins, these may not always be visible, similar to how conditions like hypertension or high cholesterol often have no obvious symptoms.
It is also important to note that not every bulging vein qualifies as a varicose vein. Elevated venous blood pressure in CVI causes the veins to stretch both across (becoming wider) and along (becoming longer). Typically, a straight, bulging vein may be perfectly normal and can indicate a healthy circulatory system. However, when veins display twists, kinks, and curves, they are more likely to be the pathological varicosities seen in poor venous circulation.
Risk factors such as genetics, prolonged standing, obesity, pregnancy, and aging can contribute to valve dysfunction and CVI, ultimately leading to the development of varicose veins. Understanding these risk factors can be critical in both preventing and treating the condition.
Our circulatory system can be compared to a tree: CVI is the root of the venous tree, while varicose veins represent its major branches. Similarly, spider veins (telangiectasia), another symptom of CVI, are like smaller branches emerging from the same underlying issue.
How Can I Get Rid of My Varicose Veins?
If varicose veins are of concern, underlying chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) should be searched for and treated. This will not only eradicate varicosities and other symptoms of CVI but also prevent its further progression, leading eventually to complications, such as blood clots, bleeding, infection, and trophic ulcers.
Just like with any other disease, it is almost always wrong to treat a symptom. It is essential to establish a diagnosis first and then treat the disease. For example, if a headache is caused by elevated blood pressure, any painkiller might take care of it without, however, affecting underlying hypertension. Untreated hypertension, in turn, can lead to serious complications, including heart failure or stroke. Treating the primary diagnosis, hypertension, will not only eliminate the headache but also prevent its complications. Our varicose veins treatment clinic can help diagnose and treat the symptoms of chronic venous insufficiency and other venous diseases.
Chronic Venous Insufficiency
Chronic Venous Insufficiency is extremely common, yet not well known or understood, including by healthcare professionals. It is also known under the names “superficial venous insufficiency,” “chronic venous hypertension,” and “stasis distal venopathy.”
Most people are familiar with one aspect of venous insufficiency: varicose veins, otherwise known as varicosities. What is not usually known is that varicose veins are merely one of the symptoms of venous insufficiency. Everyone with venous insufficiency does have varicosities. Rarely, however, are the varicose veins visible to the naked eye.
The main problem with venous insufficiency is the blood following. While arteries carry oxygenated blood away from the heart, veins bring deoxygenated blood back to the heart. In humans, the legs are at a disadvantage due to our posture. The blood flows there due to contractions of the heart and also with the help of gravity. To get the blood back up to the heart, our veins have multiple one-way valves. These valves allow the blood to go up while blocking its way down.
With venous insufficiency, some leg veins become too wide, creating a gap between valves. Through this gap, the deoxygenated blood can leak backward instead of moving toward the heart. Since this reversal of blood flow leads to an elevation of venous blood pressure, varicose veins start to form, and the legs become achy, swollen, or feel heavy. The venous blood has no oxygen but plenty of lactic acids and other end-metabolites, and is responsible for leg pain, calf cramps, restless leg syndrome, leg tiredness, muscle fatigue, difficulties walking and standing, the sensations of itching, the sensation of “pins and needles,” numbness, and many other symptoms.
Left untreated, venous insufficiency eventually leads to complications, such as venous leg ulcers, bleeding, blood clots, infection, and skin cancer.
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