Talk:Sclerotherapy

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Merge with prolotherapy?

I recommend against merging. That would be making sclerotherapy, an effective treatment, a subdivision of prolotherapy, an unproven treatment. Sclerotherapy for varicose veins is a hugely popular procedure, with published randomized controlled trials supporting it, and most people will be looking for information for that purpose, so it should have its own page. Prolotherapy is an unproven, rarely-used treatment. The Wikipedia Prolotherapy page has all kinds of problems, including commercial promotion, NPOV and personal testimony. Nbauman 11:54, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please remove this suggestion to merge.

It would be a major error to merge sclerotherapy with prolotherapy. As mentioned by another, sclerotherapy is a very well established medical treatment performed successfully in many countries. It has been studied intensively and its effects and side-effects are well documented. Unlike prolotherapy, respected medical sources advocate sclerotherapy for several conditions. The suggestion to merge should be removed. (Vein2 13:10, 7 March 2007 (UTC))[reply]

?Merge with foam sclerotherapy

There is a separate topic on Foam sclerotherapy, which should clearly be a sub-topic of sclerotherapy- read historical aspects. Sclerotherapy and foam sclerotherapy are used by the same physicians, often within one treatment session, using the same sclerosants.(Vein2 02:54, 9 March 2007 (UTC))[reply]

sodium morrhuate

Take a look at ("Varicose Veins - Primary Treatment with Sclerotherapy, a personal appraisal"; J Dermatol Surg Oncol 1992; 18:39-42.) The author, Philip G. Gallagher, now deceased, treated me and many others very succesfully with sodium morrhuate. Why are practitioners of this therapy extremely difficult to find today? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.102.205.221 (talk • contribs) 05:30, May 15, 2007

this page reads like a sclerotherapy commercial

"fully approved by the FDA" obviously an infomercial as a simple look at the FDA website will show. Each part of the process - needle, injector, chemical-- comes with warnings and there are adverse reports. I am going to leave this with a [citation needed].MichelleInSanMarcos (talk) 18:52, 3 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I came here to learn about a term I didn't know and felt like I was watching an infomercial. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.133.176.94 (talk) 22:34, 21 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

unsigned2 Sodium morrhuate is not used as much these days if at all. A lot of patients had problems with allergic reactions to the drug and its use was deemed too dangerous. The sclerosants; STS and Polidocanol ,used commonly now are much safer and equally effective if administered well. vein2