The Center for Vein Medicine has been Mid-Maryland’s ONLY vein center exclusively treating vein disease since 1991, serving Hagerstown Maryland, Frederick Maryland and the surrounding areas. The Center for Vein Medicine provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art approach to venous disorders, including varicose veins, spider veins and leg ulcers. The course of therapy is determined by detailed history, physical examination, color duplex scanning,audible doppler, plethysmograph,. These are all advanced, non-invasive procedures that are done right here in either our Hagerstown or Frederick, Maryland locations (the reason our patients have dubbed us “the one stop vein shop”).

Dr. Uchino is Board-Certified in General Surgery by the American Board of Medical Specialties with over 30 years of surgical experience and he is Board Certified and a Diplomat in the American College of Phlebology. His current practice is now specialized in all aspects of venous disorders and vein disease, including non-surgical as well as surgical treatment. He is currently on staff at Washington County Hospital in Hagerstown, Maryland, ranked one of the top 100 hospitals in the United States. Dr. Uchino is a graduate of the Tokyo Medical School. His surgical training included internship at Ellis Hospital in Schenectady, NY and surgical residency at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City and Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Uchino was Assistant Professor of Surgery at Chicago Medical School in Illinois from 1980 – 1995. He has been practicing in Hagerstown, Maryland since 1996.

Dr. Uchino presented his paper “Incompetent Perforators of the Foot” at the UIP World Congress/American College of Phlebology meeting in San Diego, California on August 28, 2003. He has written and published several scientific papers on topics including:

* Incompetent Perforating Veins of the Foot
* Office Ligation of Incompetent Perforating Vein of the Foot
* Endovenous Laser Closure of Perforating Veins of the Leg
* Ultrasound Guided Sclerotherapy with foam solution of            incompetent perforating veins of the leg

Dr. Uchino’s professional associations include: Fellow, American College of Surgeons; member, American College of Phlebology; and member, International College of Angiology.

Endovenous laser therapy is a minimally invasive procedure done under local anesthesia at our office. Laser energy is used to ablate (close) the diseased vein caused by faulty valves. This procedure takes about 30-60 minutes and there is little alteration to your activity level after the procedure. Patients may return to work on the same or next day. This has become the first choice, replacing traditional surgical vein stripping.The advantage of EVLT is a less invasive procedure with a lower recurrence rate than surgery.

Sclerotherapy is a non-surgical procedure that involves injecting a special solution with a tiny needle into the vein. The solution causes the walls of the vein to stick together thereby ablating (closing) the vein. We now use topical anesthetic cream to minimize any discomfort.. Sclerotherapy continues to be the most effective, predictable treatment over laser for spider veins of the legs.

Ultrasound Guided Sclerotherapy. When the leaking (faulty) valve/vein to be treated is located deep in the tissue, an ultrasound scan (live imaging) is used to guide the placement of a tiny needle to the site. This is done at our office and the procedure takes about 5-10 minutes. This treatment method has replaced, in many cases, the need for surgical ligation of small to moderate size leaking veins. There is little to no alteration to your daily activity with this procedure.