Newsletter 11/12/05
Wilson Interventional Clinic

I have recently attended another “Thought Leader Forum” for peripheral vascular disease at the Heart Hospital in Little Rock, AR. This conference focused on the use of a laser catheter to treat blockages in arteries. We do have this technology now at BRMC. I think that it will give us some options to treat arteries, particularly in the calf, that otherwise would not have any option for treatment. Hopefully, this will help us prevent some patients from having to undergo an amputation.

More patients are coming each week to have laser venous ablation to treat varicose veins. This procedure is going to help a lot of people. Ultrasound guided sclerotherapy and microphlebectomy are two treatments which will help treat a few of the veins that don’t resolve after laser treatment.

We have started with sclerotherapy for spider veins (telangiectasias) which is for cosmetic treatment only. My nurse, Debbie Hurst LPN, is doing these treatments after I have evaluated the patient. This entails injecting the spider veins with medicine to make them close using a tiny needle.

That is all for now. I’ll post more news as it occurs.


Matthew B. Wilson MD