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It’s been nearly eight months since the Vein Specialists Fort Myers location introduced IVUS (Intravascular ultrasound) to its patients. As you may have read in our earlier blogs, IVUS is the newest technology that allows a catheter based ultrasound to precisely identify and measure pelvic vein blockages.  This unique system allows the surgeon to view and measure from within the actual veins rather than from the outside. Since introducing this cutting edge technology, many patients have...

What is VenaSeal™?  VenaSeal™ is the latest minimally invasive procedure proven to safely and effectively treat venous reflux disease.  At Vein Specialists, we are dedicated to improving our patients’ health.  VenaSeal™ was approved by the FDA late in 2015 and is the only procedure that uses medical adhesive to close a diseased leg vein from the inside.  Dr. Magnant and Dr. Nero are the only physicians in Southwest Florida currently offering VenaSeal™, which is available in...

Tired of the cold, snowy New England winters, Kristi Harkness and her family relocated to warmer Fort Myers in 2004. Dedicating herself as a homemaker and mother, Kristi devotes most of her time to her four sons whom she homeschools. She dearly loves her boys, but four pregnancies left her with symptomatic varicose veins in her legs. “In addition to the bulging veins, I also had heaviness and a lot of swelling in my legs,” she shares. “I didn’t have any cramping, but it was uncomfortable for...

As hurricane Irma was bearing down on us in early September, we all had to quickly prepare and then make the difficult decision to either ride it out or evacuate. I know from my own experience as well as so many others I have spoken with that each approach had significant drawbacks. For those who stayed, there were days of sitting and watching the storm approach, and then inflict its wrath before moving up the state, leaving many in its path without power. This resulted in a complete...

My name is April Stowers and I am a nurse practitioner at Vein Specialists.  October is my favorite month because college football is in full swing and I love Halloween! At Vein Specialists, we celebrate October because of spiders and HELPING our patients with spider veins and symptoms of venous insufficiency. What does the appearance of spider veins mean? Spider veins present differently in different people.  Sometimes, it is a cosmetic concern or a patient just has a few areas where the...