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Professor Mark Whiteley
Mark Whiteley
How is Pelvic Congestion Syndrome treated?
Professor Mark Whiteley explains that Pelvic Congestion Syndrome is treated with a coil embolisation, a local anaesthetic procedure where a little needle is inserted into the neck under ultrasound control, and is used to insert permanent coils that can permanently destroy the veins.
Transcript
At the moment the best treatment option for pelvic venous congestion that's been found, is to actually use a coil embolization. And so that's a local anaesthetic procedure at the Whiteley Clinic where we put a little needle into the neck under ultrasound control, go straight into the veins because it's a straight line from the neck, and we put these permanent coils that can permanently destroy the veins. The difficulty is, is that it should be done under local anaesthetic at 45 degrees so we can see where they're going, a lot of doctors at the moment are only treating the ovarian veins cause they're big, whereas in fact, the majority of the problem are the internal iliac veins, which are more complex, they're down inside the pelvis.