Margo DeSantis used to cringe every time she would put on her tennis skirt, wishing she could hide the varicose veins on her leg. But it wasn't worth it to her to undergo surgery that would have involved incisions every two inches up and down her leg to rip the vein out and the scarring that would result.

It was ten years before she learned that interventional radiologists perform a nonsurgical procedure that's done in a doctor's office, takes an hour or less and involves incisions that are smaller than a pencil point.

DeSantis is not alone. Many of the 25 million people in the U.S. that suffer from varicose veins (one out of every two adults over 50) are unaware of the nonsurgical option, because most people have never heard of interventional radiologists.

These doctors are board certified vascular specialists who offer minimally invasive, targeted treatments throughout the body.

Produced for Society of Interventional Radiology

Duration : 1 min 36 sec

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