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Wednesday, Jul 21, 2004

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Programme on varicose veins

By Our Special Correspondent

BANGALORE, JULY 20. Varicose veins afflict the legs of traffic police personnel, teachers, nurses, barbers and others who work long hours standing. Appropriately enough, the City Police Commissioner, S. Mariswamy, inaugurated the Venous Disorder Week at Manipal Hospital on Monday.

The programme includes free medical check-ups for police personnel.

Consultant vascular surgeon Bhagwan explained what venous disorders were and how they could be treated. "Varicose veins are a disorder affecting the superficial veins, usually on the legs. Normally blood flows from superficial veins to the deep veins through the communicating veins and from there, to the heart. But if the valves are absent or malfunctioning, there is a backflow (reflux) of blood from the deep veins to the superficial veins. This leads to dilated and twisted veins called varicose veins,'' he said.

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