The "Leg Perfector" - Professor Mark Whiteley for leg varicose veins and thread veins

The Mail Online ran an article yesterday entitled "Summer beauty special: The Gold Standard".



The "Leg Perfector" - Professor Mark Whiteley
for varicose veins and thread veins
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-2662485/Summer-beauty-special-The-gold-standard.html

In the article, Prof Mark Whiteley was called "The Leg Perfector" - for his work on thread veins and varicose veins.

In addition, the aesthetic branch of The Whiteley Clinic which is Absolute Aesthetics also uses Velashape for Cellulite reduction.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-2662485/Summer-beauty-special-The-gold-standard.html





Thread vein treatments in Daily Mail - Mark Whiteley featured by Sarah Vine

In today's Daily Mail (15th of May 2014), top beauty journalist Sarah Vine has written an article entitled "How to get rid of those pesky little thread veins". http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2628556/Sarah-Vine-Beauty-Sleuth-How-rid-pesky-little-thread-veins.html

In the article, Sarah quotes Prof Mark Whiteley as "the best person, in my personal experience".

Leg thread veins are much harder to treat them was originally thought and proper treatment entails duplex ultrasound scan of the underlying veins to find out if there is a cause that needs to be addressed before the thread veins are treated.

Almost 9/10 people with thread veins have an underlying cause - usually "hidden varicose veins". Failure to identify these with duplex ultrasound scan and treating them with one of the new local anaesthetic pinhole vein techniques often leads to failure of the thread vein treatment - wasting time and money and sometimes causing permanent damage to the skin.

For more information about the treatment of thread veins, please see:
http://www.thewhiteleyclinic.co.uk/varicose-veins-treatment/spider_thread_veins.htm.
 

Daily Mail features Embarrassing Bodies veins case

The case of vulval/vaginal varicose veins and recurrent leg varicose veins after old fashioned stripping, which was cured by Mark Whiteley and Judy Holdstock of The Whiteley Clinic working with Dr Tony Lopez of The Imaging Clinic, has been featured in The Daily Mail.

Click on picture to see article

To see the article, please click on:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2283817/Channel-4-Embarrassing-Bodies-Mother-Donna-genital-vaginal-varicose-veins-removed-surgery-husband-thought-clitoris.html

Daily Mail - Male Varicose Veins featuring Mark Whiteley

Today there is an excellent article on Varicose Veins in men in The Daily Mail by John McEntee and featuring Mark Whiteley.

 

Varicose veins affect men at least as commonly as women
Mark Whiteley in The Daily Mail

It discusses the fact hat although most people think that varicose veins affect women predominantly, research has shown that at least as many men - in not more - get varicose veins. They just don't go to doctors to get treated.

Te article also points out that both the NHS and private medical insurers are trying to get out of paying for varicose vein treatments. It is harder and harder to get varicose veins treated on the NHS or under private insurance - meaning that varicose vein treatments are becoming something that people need to pay for themselves.

As such such, it would be sensible for patients needing varicose vein surgery to make sure that they go to the paces with the best outcomes - which might not be the cheapest.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2258653/Varicose-veins-Its-NOT-just-women-Look-halfs-legs--shock.html

Hyperbaric Oxygen diving tank for Leg Ulcers - but only some

A report in the Daily Mail today shows the benefit of hyperbaric oxygen - or the "Diving Tank" - for non-healing leg wounds - or "leg ulcers" as they call them ( http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2238941/The-diving-tank-heal-leg-ulcers--help-migraines-too.html ).

Hyperbaric oxygen from a "Diving Tank" is very useful for such chronic wounds - but unfortunately the article doesn't make clear that they are talking about a very small number of leg ulcers.

Of the 500,000 people in the UK who keep getting leg ulcers, the vast majority (some 80-90%) are due to Venous Problems - Venous Leg Ulcers.

In these people, the "Diving Tank" has no benefit. The best way to treat these is to perform local anaesthetic surgery to the veins - not only healing the leg ulcers but stopping them from comming back again.

In our latest published research on leg ulcers, we cured 84% of leg ulcers by local anaesthetic vein surgery.


Phlebology. 2012 Jul 25. [Epub ahead of print]
Healing rates following venous surgery for chronic venous leg ulcers in an independent specialist vein unit.
Thomas CA, Holdstock JM, Harrison CC, Price BA, Whiteley MS.

Abstract:
OBJECTIVES:
This is a retrospective study over 12 years reporting the healing rates of leg ulcers at a specialist vein unit. All patients presented with active chronic venous leg ulcers (clinical, aetiological, anatomical and pathological elements [CEAP]: C6) and had previously been advised elsewhere that their ulcers were amenable to conservative measures only.
METHOD:
Seventy-two patients (84 limbs) were treated between March 1999 and June 2011. Patients were contacted in August 2011 by questionnaire and telephone. Of 72 patients, two were deceased and two had moved location at follow-up, so were not contactable. Fifty patients replied and 18 did not (response rate 74%), representing a mean follow-up time of 3.1 years.
RESULTS:
Ulcer healing occurred in 85% (44 of 52 limbs) of which 52% (27) limbs were no longer confined to compression. Clinical improvement was achieved in 98% of limbs.
CONCLUSIONS:
This study shows that a significant proportion of ulcers currently managed conservatively can be healed by surgical intervention.

www.legulcers.co.uk

Dr Martin Scurr forgot surgery can cure Leg Ulcers

In an article yesterday in The Daily Mail, GP Dr Martin Scurr answered a question about leg ulcers (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2235427/Ask-doctor-Whats-best-way-prevent-leg-ulcer.html).

In it, he quite correctly pointes out that leg ulcers can be cured by compression dressing and that they almost always come back again, needing continual compression.

What he didn't mention was the results of the ESCHAR study showing that surgery to the veins of the legs is just as effective in curing venous leg ulcers, but also prevents them coming back.

In our own research, we have cured 84% of leg ulcers - and 50% never need to wear compression ever again.

www.legulcers.co.uk

Leg ulcer report in Daily Mail misses point

Today a report in The Daily Mail (link below) reported on new research showing that a "mesh" of skin cells can help to cure leg ulcers.

Although this, and anything else that helps leg ulcers, is of great value, the article missed the most important point about curing leg ulcers:

- If you find out the underlying cause and cure that, then the leg ulcers will heal by themselves in the majority of patients.

Most leg ulcers in the UK are caused by venous reflux ("hidden varicose veins"). If everyone who had a leg ulcer has a duplex ultrasound scan, and then those with venous problems were fixed, and the few with arterial problems were also fixed, then the majority of leg ulcers would heal without needing such new techniques.

This new technique is only needed for those ulcers that we can't heal  ....  The problem that should be shouted about in the national media isn't the need for a new product, but WHY AREN'T PEOPLE WITH LEG ULCERS BEING INVESTIGATED FOR VENOUS DISEASE AND OFFERED CURATIVE SURGERY?

For more information see: www.legulcers.co.uk

Daily Mail Article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2228348/Leg-ulcers-How-tiny-scaffolding-end-misery.html

"Top Treatment" in The Daily Mail

Yesterday, The Whiteley Clinic was quoted in the Daily Mail as the Top Treatment choice by Eve Cameron, one of the top beauty editors in the UK.

A selection of the top beauty editors were asked for their top treatments - and least favorite treatments - and the results were published. Eve quoted our treatment of her varicose veins as her "Top Treatment" and also said it was "the most life changing thing" that she had done:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1262706/Secrets-experts-Which-treatments-beauty-editors-recommend--NEVER-again.html

Me and my surgeon - Laser Sweat Ablation in the Daily Mail

This morning an article appeared on our Laser Sweat Ablation procedure in The Daily Mail under the "Me and my surgeon" section.

You can click on the picture on the left to read it in full.