Comment by cs02rm0
2 days ago
Sounds like it reoccurs, but potentially the procedure is repeatable. I didn't see a frequency.
I wonder how many potential answers to such problems are out there, known to a few but not acted on by the masses.
2 days ago
Sounds like it reoccurs, but potentially the procedure is repeatable. I didn't see a frequency.
I wonder how many potential answers to such problems are out there, known to a few but not acted on by the masses.
> In any case, the paper makes no comment as to whether the problem can be solved the same way a second time; obviously in principle it can, but finding all the new bypasses and sclerosing them might be difficult in practice.
Multiple surgeries is not sustainable. Too much uncertainty.
> Multiple surgeries is not sustainable. Too much uncertainty
I'm not sure where this is coming from. Multiple cardiac bypasses have a ton of uncertainty, but they are effective because efficacy is measured by quality of life * increased lifespan.
Multiple surgeries (the time it takes to regrow major veins from capillaries that aren't blocked off) to relatively non-lethal parts of the body seems very sustainable for a human lifespan after 60 or 55 or whatever.
> they then have the patient close off the bottom of the vein with finger pressure while they inject a sclerosing agent into the vein
It seems highly failure prone. If you don't block the flow are you going to stroke out?