Leg Ulcer Treatment Revolution

Most venous leg ulcers can be CURED.

Not healed temporarily with dressings and compression, only to come back again – but cured.

So why is this revolutionary?

Because most patients are not given the chance of a cure. Patients with leg ulcers are consigned to a life of dressings and compression – and are not told that they might be cured with local anaesthetic vein treatments, performed as walk-in, walk-out procedures. Professor Mark Whiteley is an internationally renowned venous surgeon who has spent over 20 years researching venous disease and treatments. He performed the first endovenous surgery in the UK (March 1999), invented the TRLOP procedure in 2001 and founded The Whiteley Clinic in 2003 as a specialist venous clinic – now called Whiteley Clinics. This book is aimed at anyone who has a venous leg ulcer, or who deals with patients who have venous leg ulcers – either as a carer or as a healthcare professional. Written simply and well-illustrated, it takes the reader from first principles through the investigation and treatments of venous leg ulcers – showing how compression and dressings can be avoided in most patients who can walk. With the changing face of medical research, new guidelines and litigation, anyone who has a venous leg ulcer, or who works with those that suffer from venous leg ulcers, should be aware of the messages in this book.

Author Biography

Mark S Whiteley is an internationally recognised expert in venous surgery and venous conditions – venous leg ulcers, varicose veins, pelvic congestion syndrome, thread veins (spider veins) and aesthetic veins (face, forehead, arms, breasts and hands). He trained in St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London and has been a lecturer in surgery at Oxford University. Mark introduced endovenous surgery to the UK, performing the first case in the country on the 12th March 1999. He was the first in the world to perform 1,000 cases. He set up The Whiteley Clinic – now called “Whiteley Clinics” as a centre of excellence for venous surgery and research. He is also a visiting Professor at the University of Surrey, through which much of his research is performed. In 2001, Mark and Judy Holdstock invented the TRLOP technique for ablating perforator veins. Mark is invited to speak on venous surgery all around the world. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed research papers, written several chapters in specialist books and has won multiple international and national prizes for venous surgery and research. Mark founded The College of Phlebology (the study of veins) in 2011 as well as The Leg Ulcer Charity in the same year. Mark has a passion for teaching and is now writing books to help the public, medical and nursing students as well as doctors and nurses understand venous disease better. Using simple descriptions and many line diagrams, Mark makes quite complex medical conditions and treatments much easier to understand.