Released on: February 1, 2008, 8:39 am

Press Release Author: Prana Marketing

Industry: Healthcare

Press Release Summary: Dr. Steve Elias Director of The Centers for Vein Disease at
Manhattan's Mount Sinai Medical Center and at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center
in New Jersey is offering free vein screenings for the month of March

Press Release Body: Englewood Cliffs NJ (February 1, 2008) - Dr. Steve Elias
Director of The Centers for Vein Disease at Manhattan's Mount Sinai Medical Center
and at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in New Jersey is offering free vein
screenings for the month of March in honor of Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Awareness
Month. patients with visible veins such as bulging varicose veins, spider veins or
those with a personal or family history of blood clots should attend\" The screenings
will be held at Englewood Hospital.

DVT (Deep Venous Thrombosis) is a blood clot that can form in your legs and
sometimes move to your lungs, where it could potentially be fatal. In fact,
complications from DVT blood clots contribute to more deaths each year than AIDS and
breast cancer combined. Dr Elias wants to make sure that the community is aware of
the dangers of DVT by offering these free screenings.

DVT (Deep Venous Thrombosis) is a problem that is estimated to affect 300,000 people
per year. Not everyone develops the life threatening complication of blood clots
traveling from your leg veins to your heart or lungs (pulmonary embolus). Clots that
remain in your leg vein can also cause long-term damage that affects the legs
themselves over the course of your life such as; swelling, aching, throbbing, skin
changes and ulcers at the ankles. It is important to not only diagnose the problem
early, but to treat it early too. Prompt treatment prevents life threatening and leg
threatening problems.

Dr. Steven Elias lectures, publishes, and teaches extensively about minimally
invasive vein care and procedures. As Course Director of the Annual Vascular Fellows
Course in Venous Disease, he trains young vascular surgeons in the treatment of vein
problems. His clinical interests encompass all aspects of vein care: spider veins,
varicose veins, perforator and deep venous incompetence, and venous ulcers. He
performs all minimally invasive vein procedures and his work at the Center for Vein
Disease includes the prevention and treatment of DVT Deep Venous Thrombosis. Dr.
Elias is a fellowship-trained vascular surgeon and member of the American Venous
Forum, the American College of Phlebology, the Society for Clinical Vascular
Surgery, and the International Society of Cardiovascular Surgery. He is a recipient
of the Dardik Research and Education Award.

You can learn more about him and to view his most recent television appearance on NJ
12 log on to: www.pranamarketing.com/client/doctorelias.

Vein Center at Englewood Hospital
Englewood Hospital and
Medical Center Foundation
350 Engle Street
Englewood, NJ 07631




For more information about Dr. Elias or to set up an interview: Angela Thomas
(201)-503-1333

visit www.pranamarketing.com/client/doctorelias.


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