A live look at how blood moves through a healthy leg vein, what goes wrong with vein disease, and how each treatment Dr. Banerjee performs closes a failed vein.
Conditions
Treatments
Great Saphenous Vein
Healthy
A healthy vein.
When you walk, the calf muscle pump squeezes the deep veins and pushes blood up toward the heart. Between steps, one-way valves snap shut so blood cannot fall back down.