Doctor Goren is pleased to offer this web site. The site was created to present the public scientifically backed information on vein disorders treatable in an office setting. The provided information should be useful also in assisting the potential consumer to select a proper practitioner who is not motivated by ego or greed. Similarly, the "Doctor's Corner" should be helpful to those practitioners willing to be on the cutting edge when it comes to the modern treatment of varicose veins.
Gabriel Goren, M.D. a graduate of the Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem, class of 1963, is an Israeli Board Certified general surgeon and an American trained transplant surgeon (U. of Minnesota and U. of Southern California). Since 1984, Dr. Goren has limited his practice solely to vein disorders. He presented his clinical experience at the IV European-American Symposium on venous diseases, Washington D.C. 1987; First Congress of the North American Society of Phlebology, San Diego 1988; XI Annual Congress of the Phlebology Society of America, Washington, D.C., 1988; First Annual Meeting of the American Venous Forum, New Orleans, 1989; British Venous Forum, Manchester, 1989; XIX Congress of the International Cardiovascular Society, Toronto, 1989; Advances in Venous Diseases, St. Mary's Hospital Symposium, London, 1989; Second Annual Meeting of the American Venous Forum, San Diego 1990; The XIII Annual Meeting of the Phlebological Society of America, Chicago 1990; and the V European-American Symposium on venous diseases, Vienna, 1990. Doctor Goren held surgical grand rounds at the Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbara in 1990, USC Medical School and Tarzana Medical Center in 1991 and he was a guest lecturer at the Venous Symposium organized by UCLA in 1990 as well as in 1991 and 92. He presented the ambulatory phlebectomy technique under local anesthesia for truncal varicose veins at the Third Annual Meeting of the American Venous Forum in February 1991, at the Annual Meeting of the Clinical Vascular Surgical Society in April 1991, at the So. California Chapter of the American College of Surgeons held in Santa Barbara, January 1993 and at the European Congress of Phlebology held in Budapest, September 1993. He was an invited discussant on studies presented at the American Venous Forum meetings of 1994, 1996 and 1997. He has spent time in Europe with Doctors Oesch of Bern in 1990, Rivlin of London and Varady of Frankfurt in 1991, Coleridge-Smith of London in 1992, Fischer of St. Gallen in 1996 and Creton of Nancy in 1997. Dr. Goren participated at the Swiss Phlebological Society meeting dedicated to varicose vein surgery, held in Lenzerhide, Switzerland, January 1993 and at the workshop on Hach's paratibial fasciotomy, held in Frankfurt, December 1993. In December 1995 he revisited Frankfurt for the "Venen-Chirurgie-Live" workshop that focused on varicose and perforator vein surgery. He also participated in the June 1996 workshop on the similar subject held in Natters/Innsbruck. In October of 1997 & 1999, he presented his experience at the venous meeting organized by the Mt. Sinai Hospital of New York and at the meeting in 1997 organized by Dr. Varady of Frankfurt. He also presented his experience at the Pacific Venous Symposium organized by the Straub Clinic in Hawaii. He published numerous articles in medical journals, wrote a manual, "OFFICE PHLEBOLOGY" which is a guide for the physician specializing in vein diseases, and produced four professional instructional video tapes as well. So far, in the last ten years, he operated on over 1800 varicose limbs in his office under loco-regional anesthesia. For the last eleven years he has organized clinical workshops at the CENTER, for physicians from all over the country, who are interested in patient evaluation, sclerotherapy and office surgery for varicose veins. So far, over 650 general, vascular and plastic surgeons have participated and hundreds more have purchased the instructional tapes and the Practitioner's Guide.
Basically Dr. GOREN transformed the traumatic in hospital stripping into a walk-in / walk-out procedure that does not require down (convalescence) time of any kind, use of stitches and produces no scars and it can be done in an office setting and local anesthesia. This is also the reason that many out of state patients are seeking his help as they are offered by their home town surgeons the traumatic old fashioned stripping that requires general anesthesia, hospital setting and 10-14 days minimum down (convalescence) time and also may leave large and ugly scars.
Doctor Goren has lived in Encino since 1980. Besides English, he speaks Rumanian, Hungarian, German, French, Hebrew and can also converse in Spanish and modestly in Russian as well. He jogs eighty to ninety miles a month, swims, plays tennis, skates and rollerblades. His main pasttime recreation is however classical music and piano.
Acknowledgement: I am indebted to the following doctors who have enabled to visit their setup and share with their theoretical and practical skills: A. Zelikovski (Tel Aviv); R. Dee (Stamford, CT.) P. Samuels (Tarzana, CA.); D. Duffy (Torrance, CA.); A. Fronek (La Jolla, CA); J. Sladen (Vancouver, B.C. ) K. Biegeleisen (New York, NY); A. Nicolaides (London, UK); Schultz-Ehrenburg (Bochum, Germany); A. Oesch (Bern, Switzerland); S. Rivlin (London, UK); Z. Varady (Frankfurt, Germany); P.D. Coleridge- Smith (London, UK); Jeffrey A. Klein (San Juan Capistrano, CA); Reinhard Fischer (St. Gallen, Switzerland), Lefebvre-Vilardebo (Paris), Creton (Nancy), Sattler (Darmstadt, Germany).
Giler, Sh., Zelikowski, A., Goren, G., Urca, I. Thrombophlebitis of the lesser saphenous vein imitating soft tissue neoplasm. VASA, 1978; 7: 185-188
Goren, G. Sclerotherapy for truncal varicosities: the single session perfusion compression method.Principles and background.Proceedings10th Annual Congress of the Phlebological Society of America 1986; pp 60-69
Goren, G. PPG/LRR for the detection of venous incompetence. Letter to the editor. Phlebology, 1990; 5:61-62
Goren, G., Yellin, A.E. Primary varicose veins : topographic and hemodynamic correlations. J Cardiovasc Surg., 1990; 31:672-77 Selected and also published in Phlebological Digest 1991; 3:22-24
Goren, G. Injection sclerotherapy for Varicose veins: history and effectiveness. Phlebology 1991, 6: 7-11
Goren, G., Yellin, A.E. Surgery for truncal varicose veins: The ambulatory stab evulsion phlebectomy Am J Surg 1991; 162:166-74 Selected and published also in the Year Book of Vascular Surgery, John M. Porter Ed. 1993; 385-7
Goren, G. Primary varicose veins: hemodynamic principles of surgical care: The case for stab avulsion phlebectomy. VASA 1991; 20:365-68; Selected and also published in Phlebological Digest 1992;
Goren, G. "Real time color duplex scanning following sclerotherapy of the greater saphenous vein" Letter to the Editor, J Vasc Surg 1992; 16:497-8
Goren, G. Injection sclerotherapy revisited. Letter to the Editor. Phlebology 1992; 7:131-132
Goren, G. Injection sclerotherapy re-revisited. Letter to Editor Phlebology 1993; 8:91-2
Goren, G. Regarding "Venous ulcers and the superficial venous system". Letter to Editor. J Vasc Surg 1993;18:716-718
Goren, G. Taming varicose vein surgery. Letter to Editor. Phlebology 1993; 8:136-8
Goren, G., Yellin, A.E. Invaginated axial stripping and stab avulsion phlebectomy: a definitive outpatient procedure for varicose veins. Amb Surg 1994; 2 (1) 27-35
Goren, G., Invaginated PIN stripping. Letter to Editor. Phlebology 1994; 9:173-4
Goren, G., Yellin, A.E. Invaginated axial saphenectomy by a semi-rigid stripper: PIN stripping. J Vasc Surg 1994; 20:970-7
Goren, G., Yellin, A.E. Minimally invasive surgery for primary varicose veins: limitted invaginated axial stripping and tributary (hook) stab avulsion. Ann Vasc Surg 1995; 9:401-14
Goren, G., Yellin, A.E. Hemodynamic principles of varicose vein surgery. Dermat. Surg. 1996; 22: 657-60
Goren, G., Yellin, A.E. Cryostripping: an alternative to Perforate-invaginate Stripping? Ann Vasc Surg 1997; 11:326-28
Goren, G.,. Variability and reliability of APG in CVI. J. Vasc. Surg 1998; 28:753-4
Goren, G. Arteriosclerotic occlusive disease of the lower extremities in patients 20-40 years of age. M.D. thesis, Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, 1966.
Goren, G., Berke, G., Urca, I. Localization of 51 Cr-labeled sensitized lymphocytes at the allograft region: A possible test in organ transplantation. Surgery 1972; 71: 513-521. Also published in Year book of Surgery 1973
Goren, G., Zelikowski, A. Abu-Dalu, J., Urca, I. Leiomyoma of the jejunum as the cause of an acute abdominal condition: Report of a case. Dis. Col. & Rect. 1974; 17: 782-785
Mauer,S.M., Lee, C.S., Goren, G., Sutherland, D.E.R., Howard, R.J., Hoyer, J.R., Michael, A.F. Inability of the lymphocyte to induce glomerular injury. Transpl. Proceedings 1975; 7: 315-320
Williams, L.E., Merino, G.E., Goren, G., Najarian, J.S., Loken, M.K. Detection of canine allograft rejection with 51 Cr-labeled lymphocytes. Radiology, 1975; 115:205-206
Abramovici, A., Goren, G., Gassner, S., Urca, I., Liban, E. Pathophysiological aspects of experimental fat necrosis and its relation to acute pancreatic necrosis. Harefuah 1976; 91: 209-213
Zelikowski, A., Goren, G., Kott, I., Urca, I. Sudden ischemic toe: the blue toe syndrome VASA, 1978; 7: 333-7
Sidi, Y., Solomon, F., Goren, G., Pinkhas, J. Subfrenic abscess simulating metastatic carcinoma. Rev. Roum. Med. Med. Int., 1979; 17: 187-189
Giler, Sh., Zelikovski, A., Goren, G., Urca, I. Aneurysm of the radial artery in a patient with Buerger's disease. VASA 1979; 8:147-9
Lewinstein, C., Silberman, H., Goren, G., Feinstein, E., Berne, T.V., Seifer, D., Witt, R., Gonsier, A., Greany, G. Experience with a coaxial dialysis cannula for temporary vascular access. Transcripts Am Soc Artif Intern Org 1983; 29: 357-359
