New Sclerotherapy (FAFS) Technique in Varicose Vein Treatment

In 2015, Associate Professor Mehmet Mahir Atasoy published a new sclerotherapy technique as an article in CLINICAL RADIOLOGY, one of Europe's most prestigious scientific journals. You can access the abstract of the article on PUBMED at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25446324.

The technique described in this article is a new application of sclerotherapy, a method used as an adjunct to Endovenous Laser Ablation in the treatment of varicose veins using modern methods. This technique reduces the potential risks of sclerotherapy (treatment of varicose veins with foam) and allows for much more satisfactory cosmetic results.

This method, which Dr. Atasoy named FAFS (Fill and Acipirate Foam Sclerotherapy), has been met with particular interest by his European and American colleagues. Dr. Atasoy demonstrated that the FAFS method can easily and non-surgically treat very large and bulging varicose veins. Using this technique together, non-surgical treatment of almost all varicose veins has become possible.

Furthermore, despite the lack of a definitive consensus in European and American scientific guidelines regarding the non-surgical treatment of veins larger than 15 mm, Dr. Atasoy treated 44 patients with very large veins non-surgically using High-Temperature Endovenous Laser Ablation and FAFS techniques.

The one-year post-treatment follow-up of these patients, whose vein diameters ranged from 15 to 26 mm, was published in JVIR (Journal of Vascular Interventional Radiology), America's most prestigious journal in the field of Interventional Radiology. In September 2015, Dr. You can also review Atasoy's article on PUBMED by clicking the link https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26065928.

You can access a significant portion of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Mahir Atasoy's published scientific articles on Interventional Radiology and Breast Radiology on PUBMED by searching for "Atasoy MM" on https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed.