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The Vein Disorders Center of Encino California was founded in 1983 to dedicate itself exclusively to venous pathology.

Vein disorders are ten times more prevalent in the population than arterial diseases and millions suffer from them. Varicose veins, the most widespread venous condition, has an incidence of up to 15% in the American population. Unfortunately, for decades their treatment has been neglected by the surgical establishment, as varicose veins do not represent a technically challenging and financially rewarding pathology. Respected general and vascular surgeons that use the most modern up to the date procedures will offer the patient with varicose veins the ninety year old traumatic conventional in-hospital and costly stripping. What a paradox! The created void was filled with self proclaimed overnight "vein specialists" some of whom are still organized in this country in fast food chain-type vein clinics. Shamelessly using false advertising, some of these clinics lured in scores of naive patients, who, in the hope of a quick fix, were cheated out of thousands of dollars for no or very little and temporary return. This is the reason that the Center's main philosophy, besides offering excellent care, is to educate the public and help prospective patients to become well informed and satisfied consumers.

Moreover, please do not forget that in this period of managed care times physicians are looking for avenues to supplement their loss of income and cosmetic procedures, not being controlled by the health maintenance organizations, are the most appealing for generating the lost income. Many physicians of different specialty backgrounds target the widespread incidence of unwanted veins and their injection sclerotherapy treatment, especially among woman. Personally, I have seen an increase in incidence of patients seeking my help because skin ulcerations resulting from bad injection treatment of spider veins by practitioners who may lack the knowledge and skills to inject veins, how much to inject and what concentration to use. Varicose veins are targeted as well. In February 2000 I had a phone call from a lady from Houston who was operated for her varicose veins by a gynecologist…yes, gynecologist, who tied of the wrong ( deep) vein in her groin with catastrophic consequences to her whole leg.
The credentials of any practitioner should be carefully checked. Lesser than customary fees should alert the potential patient that he/she maybe lured into a practice not backed up by deep professional knowledge of the practitioner but rather by a practitioner who has lowered his/her fees to appeal to the naïve consumer of medical services.