Deep vein thrombosis is a stage of vein disease that can lead to life-threatening complications. That is why interventional radiologist Dr. Dev Batra and his team at Dallas Vein Institute and Texas Vascular Institute, located in Dallas and Hurst, Texas, specialize in screening for, diagnosing, and treating vein conditions as early as possible. Here,...
At Dallas Vein Institute and Texas Vascular Institute, interventional radiologist Dr. Dev Batra and his team specialize in screening for, diagnosing, and treating vein conditions. One tool they use is venous ultrasound. Here’s what you can expect during the test. Venous insufficiency and vein disease Your circulatory system is a...
Varicose veins are blood vessels that are damaged and can’t perform their function efficiently. Treating the problem before it becomes advanced protects your entire circulatory system — and your overall health. At Dallas Vein Institute and Texas Vascular Institute, with locations in Dallas and Hurst, Texas, interventional radiologist Dr. Dev Batra and his...
Your circulatory system is a network of blood vessels with the task of supplying oxygenated blood and nutrients to your body’s tissues and returning deoxygenated blood back to the lungs and heart. The arteries manage the former, and the veins take care of the latter. Veins, though, have the harder...
May-Thurner syndrome (MTS) is a rare but serious medical condition. Also called iliac vein compression syndrome or Cockett's syndrome, it affects two blood vessels in the pelvic region. It may or may not produce symptoms initially, but it does increase your risk of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in your left...
Vein disease is a progressive condition that starts when a problem with a vein causes blood flow to become sluggish. That prevents your circulatory system from supplying your body with adequate oxygen and other nutrients. If not treated, it can cause significant health problems, including skin ulcers, abscesses, and bone...
Restless leg syndrome (RLS) is a type of sleep disorder. It generates a compulsive urge to move your legs (or other body parts) along with other uncomfortable physical sensations, such as pulling, tugging, itching, aching, burning, or crawling. Unfortunately, RLS tends to be most severe in the evening, when you’re...
Vein disease is a progressive condition. Fortunately, it has telltale symptoms at each of the stages. Therefore, it’s essential to know the signs so you’ll know when to get medical help. At Dallas Vein Institute and Texas Vascular Institute, serving Dallas and Hurst, Texas, our board-certified interventional radiologist Dr. Dev Batra diagnoses and...
Your legs can swell for many reasons, which is why it’s essential to seek medical attention if it’s happening to you. Some underlying causes are nothing to worry about, such as standing on your feet too long. Other causes are more serious, such as insufficient blood flow to your extremities....
Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a circulatory system problem that affects over 900,000 people each year. It also can be life-threatening — as many as 30% of people die within the first month after diagnosis. Since it doesn’t always cause symptoms, many people don’t know they have it until they...
Vein disease can become a chronic condition if not treated. Venous ulcers — open wounds that form on the lower leg or ankle — usually appear during the last and most significant stage of venous disease. These ulcers are slow to heal and can quickly become infected, which can lead...
May-Thurner syndrome (MTS) is also referred to as iliac vein compression syndrome or Cockett's syndrome. It affects two blood vessels in the pelvic area, one of which goes into your legs and one of which runs out of your legs. While it may cause no symptoms initially, it may increase...
Venous disease is a progressive condition. It starts with damage to one or more of your veins — the conduits that return deoxygenated blood from the body’s tissues to the heart. If it is not treated, it can lead to significant health problems, including skin ulcers, abscesses, bone infections, and...
If you’re a woman, every month from your early teens to your early 50s, your ovaries release an egg ready to be fertilized. If it’s not fertilized, you experience menstrual bleeding — a sloughing off of the uterine tissue that’s not needed at that time. Along with the bleeding, you...
Your veins transport deoxygenated blood from your body back to your heart. They’re not indestructible, though, so it’s no surprise that sometimes they sustain damage. To that end, you should know the signs of vein damage, so you can get medical help when needed. Without treatment, vein damage can lead...
Chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) is a circulatory system disorder that affects the ability of blood to flow properly when returning from the body to the heart. It affects some 40% of the United States population, occurring mostly in people over 50, and in women more frequently than men. At Dallas...
Chronic vein disease develops in stages, and venous ulcers usually appear during the last and most serious stage. Because of poor circulation, open, shallow wounds form on the lower leg or ankle. They’re slow to heal and can quickly become infected if not treated. That sometimes leads to lower-limb amputation,...
Itchiness anywhere on your body, including your legs, can be due to many possible causes, such as sun or wind chapping, an allergic reaction, or skin conditions like eczema and psoriasis. If you’ve ruled out all the obvious possibilities, you may be left with a bit of a shocker —...
Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is just what it sounds like. The condition, which is actually a sleep disorder, causes a compulsive urge to move your legs (or other parts of your body) when you try to sleep. And RLS can come along with other unpleasant physical sensations, such as itching,...
Your circulatory system is a complex network of blood vessels that delivers oxygenated blood and nutrients to your body’s tissues and returns deoxygenated blood back to your heart. The arteries take care of the former, and the veins are responsible for the latter. Veins, though, in some ways have the...
Vein disease is a progressive circulatory system condition. Fortunately, there are options available to treat the various stages and restore your circulatory health. At Dallas Vein Institute, interventional radiologist Dr. Dev Batra and his staff are well versed in vein issues, the problems they cause, and the treatments that help...
Abnormal skin pigmentation can be due to many causes. One type is sun spots or age spots, where the skin produces extra melanin in response to the sun’s UV rays. These spots are completely harmless. Another comes from your circulatory system — specifically, the venous system that returns deoxygenated blood...
Chronic vein disease develops several stages, of which venous ulcers are generally the last and the most serious. These open, shallow wounds on the lower leg or ankle are slow to heal and can quickly become infected if not treated. About 1% of Americans develop these ulcers. They are common...
Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a potentially life-threatening circulatory system condition that affects over 900,000 people, with as many as 30% of them dying within the first month after diagnosis. It may or may not present with symptoms, so many people don’t know they have it until they reach a...
Vein disease is a progressive condition. It starts in the veins — the part of the circulatory system that returns deoxygenated blood from the body’s tissues back to the heart. If not treated, it can cause serious health problems, including skin ulcers, abscesses, and bone infections. At Dallas Vein Institute,...
Varicose veins are common, affecting about three in 10 adults. Generally more of a cosmetic than a medical issue, varicose veins — bulging red or purple lines usually found on the legs — can still be painful and cause skin rashes. These are just a few of the reasons you...
Vein disease refers to any problem or condition that affects the part of your circulatory system that returns deoxygenated blood from your tissues back to your heart. The symptoms depend on the specific vein condition, but it’s important to learn to recognize the most common symptoms. At Dallas Vein Institute,...
Clotting is an important process that prevents you from losing too much blood if you cut or otherwise injure yourself. The platelets in the blood adhere to the edges of the cut and release chemicals that attract even more platelets to the scene, forming an aggregate that changes the liquid...
Your veins are responsible for carrying deoxygenated blood from your organs and tissues back to your heart. When they can’t do their job, it can lead to a host of problems ranging from varicose veins to chronic venous insufficiency (CVI). Most skin pigmentation changes arise when CVI isn’t treated and...
The veins in your circulatory system play an important role. They deliver deoxygenated blood from the tissues and organs back to the heart, having to fight the force of gravity moving from the lower extremities to the chest. With all that work, is it any wonder that vein diseases are...
Varicose veins are common, affecting some 3 in 10 adults, most of them women. These swollen, twisted, red-to-blue-colored veins most commonly form on the surface of the legs, feet, and especially the calves, as standing and walking place a great deal of pressure on the veins in those regions. At...
Varicose veins are common, affecting as many as 3 in 10 adults — more women than men. And more than 70% of Americans experience some type of vein disease. Varicose veins are the red-to-purplish, twisted and bulging veins that most often appear in the legs, primarily because walking and standing...
Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a potentially life-threatening condition that affects over 900,000 people, with as many as 30% of them dying within the first month after diagnosis. Many people don’t even know they have the condition before a crisis hits. Dr. Dev Batra, an interventional radiologist at Dallas Vein...
If you find that you can’t relax, and that every time you try, you experience an uncontrollable desire to move your legs, then you might have restless leg syndrome. Restless leg syndrome makes you feel like you constantly have to move your legs, even when you’re sleeping. At Dallas Vein...
It’s hard to miss varicose veins near the skin’s surface in your legs. Gnarled and bulging, blue and purple, these are an unwanted feature for many people who develop them since they take away the even skin tone associated with good health. Varicose veins aren’t always limited to cosmetics, however....
Compression stockings have been a standard treatment for varicose veins for many decades, and are still prescribed today as a first-line therapy to manage symptoms and prevent the progression of chronic venous insufficiency (CVI). While compression stockings can provide effective symptom relief for some, many patients find them uncomfortable...
Venous leg ulcers (VLU) are the final manifestation of what is called chronic venous disease (CVD), and CVD is a complicated process that affects millions of people in the United States and worldwide. Varicose veins are probably the most infamous of the manifestations of CVD, but there are other signs...
Have you ever stood in a line, maybe for an elevator or a roller coaster, and you notice that the line is growing faster than people can move through? The line grows and grows until either: (1) people don’t think the wait is worth it, or (2) you run out...
RF and laser vein ablation are the two most common treatments available for varicose veins. Vein specialist Dr. Dev Batra compares the two treatments and discusses which is more preferred. Laser and radiofrequency ablation (RFA) are the two most common therapies available for individuals suffering from varicose veins. While the...
A female in her mid 40’s presents to Dallas Vein Institute without visible signs of vein disease. One of her primary complaints is having restless legs at night. She describes incessant urges to move her legs when she lies down that only subside when her calves and thighs are massaged,...
Background and Motivation As we discussed in our last post, deep vein thrombosis (DVT) results from a blood clot in one or more of the deep veins. It is a potentially life-threatening condition that affects up to 0.1% of the population annually (about 1 in 1000 individuals). As such, the...
Introduction to Veins Veins are blood vessels responsible for carrying used blood from your organs and tissues back to your heart. Broadly, we can divide the major veins in our legs into four categories: (1) dermal/hypodermal, (2) superficial, (3) deep, and (4) perforator veins (we won’t discuss perforator veins in...
A 31-year old female presents with a visible varicose vein coursing down the length of her right leg. The patient complains of pain along the course of the vein in her anterior thigh and along her knee. The culprit vein looks quite tortuous and many of its segments are actually...
The VenaSeal procedure is a new method of vein closure that has unique advantages over other treatment options. Vein specialist Dr. Dev Batra provides a review of how VenaSeal treatment works and how its advantages might provide a better patient experience. In our last post, we discussed the advent...
In our last article, we discussed how chronic venous disease is a spectrum of signs and symptoms from small spider veins all the way to skin ulcers. The focus was placed on understanding the early indicators because early treatment is instrumental in preventing worsening of venous disease. Varicose veins...
Rounded estimates based on The San Diego Population Study.ᴬ When we have the opportunity to sit down and talk venous disease with our medical peers, we tend to emphasize the subtleties of reflux. It’s important to catch venous reflux in its early stages to prevent worsening of the disease,...
When discussing vein disease, we often talk of its symptoms, its complications, and its cosmetic manifestations. It’s less common that we discuss its impact on everyday life. The symptoms of vein disease obviously cause a great deal of discomfort, but how do they impact routine activities and quality of life?...
Vein specialist Dr. Dev Batra explains ultrasound-guided foam sclerotherapy (UGFS) and its role in vein treatment. Ultrasound-guided foam sclerotherapy (UGFS), like thermal ablation or the adhesive-based VenaSeal system, is yet another option in the vein specialist’s toolbox for managing vein problems. The three methods - sclerotherapy, ablation, and adhesive...
Treatments that close down varicose veins can sometimes help venous leg ulcers heal. Dr. Dev Batra describes the experiences of one of his patients that was living with a venous leg ulcer, and how he used a vein closure procedure to help heal her ulcer. Venous leg ulcers are...
Despite the availability of minimally invasive approaches, some surgeons still recommend vein removal surgery to treat major varicose veins in the leg. We’re strong advocates for minimally invasive approaches (like the one pictured above), not just because we’re trained endovascular vein specialists, but also because minimally invasive treatments have proven...
We know from having kids of our own that pregnancy can be overwhelming. Preparing for a new child takes a lot of work, and there are literally books full of health advice to keep up with. As committed vein specialists, we feel that it’s our responsibility to add one more...
Vein specialist Dr. Dev Batra explains the differences between laser treatment and sclerotherapy injections for spider veins, and which option is better. Because Dallas Vein Institute is a full-service vein clinic, we’re often asked why we don’t offer laser treatment. The short answer is that sclerotherapy injections have proven advantages...
Your veins may actually be the reason that you experience frequent night cramps, restless leg activity, and soreness in your legs. Our patients are often surprised by the symptoms that their veins are causing. Unfortunately, the cosmetic manifestations of vein problems tend to bias our thinking away from the medically...