Jonathan Daniel, MD, is a thoracic surgeon at Starr-Wood Cardiothoracic Group in Portland, Oregon. Jonathan Daniel, MD, is also affiliated with a team working on the treatment of vein disease at the Rose City Vein Center, also in Portland. The team offers new vein closure techniques.
Patients with vein-related problems like chronic venous insufficiency can suffer discomfort, pain, swelling, restless legs or even a type of venous ulcer. Chronic venous insufficiency occurs when the walls or valves of the vein weaken.
Previous treatment for venous insufficiency is surgery or vein stripping. The new technique offers a nonsurgical therapeutic treatment that uses radiofrequency energy or adhesive glue to close the diseased vein.
These new techniques can bring a radical change to the treatment of venous insufficiency. The treatment requires less than an hour, and the recovery time for patients is also fast. The team at Rose City Vein Center was the first to offer adhesive closure of veins to Portland, Oregon.
