Dr. Yan Katsnelson is an entrepreneur, highly skilled cardiac surgeon, business owner, and philanthropist. He is the founder and CEO of USA Vein Clinics, which is part of USA Clinics Group – the parent company of USA Fibroid Centers, USA Vascular Centers, USA Hemorrhoid Centers, USA Prostate Centers, USA Pain Center, USA Longevity Centers, and USA Oncology Centers. Dr. Katsnelson has established himself as a strong advocate for accessible, affordable, and compassionate healthcare services.
As the CEO of USA Clinics Group, Dr. Katsnelson has pioneered expanding minimally invasive options that provide high-quality care using the latest technology in the most advanced facilities to the communities that need it most. He also founded the Chicago Heart Institute, which was dedicated to the advanced treatments of cardiovascular diseases.
Dr. Katsnelson, M.D., completed a fellowship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard School of Medicine, in Boston, MA. He was a faculty cardiac surgeon at the University of Chicago prior to starting his Cardiovascular and Thoracic private practice in Chicago Northwest suburbs. Dr. Yan Katsnelson was the first U.S. surgeon to perform the double valve replacement using Biocor™ tissue valve. His clinical areas of expertise included minimally invasive valve surgery, complex aortic operations, re-operative coronary and valve surgery, and beating-heart (off-pump) bypass surgery. He is published in various medical and scientific journals.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is a podcast from wor Back now to the
WR Saturday Morning Show with Larry Minty.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Welcome back. President Trump is diagnosed with chronic venial insufficiency.
What exactly does that mean? We have one of the
world's leading experts to ask. Doctor Jan katz Nelson is
founder and CEO of US vein Clinics. Doctor, thanks so
much for spending some time with us today on this.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Thank you for calling me.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Absolutely. Let's let's start out with what he has and
maybe you can explain it to me.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
So, President Trump has a very common condition called superficial
venus in sufficiency. But thirty percent of adults and this
age suffer from this condition and it's basically prom congestion
that caused by broken valve and preventing return of venus
used blood towards the heart and personal Trump works very hard,
(01:01):
he tends a lot, he travels a lot on the plane,
and it's all is not very thin, and it's all
exacerbate the problem with the legs. It's very common, easy
to diagnose, and I'm glad it's just a veiness insufficiency,
not heart problem, not kidney problem. And the reason it's
(01:25):
good because it's easily treatable. The treatments for ess insufficiency
it's the ablatians or sclotherapies and take ten to fifteen minutes.
They're actually all covered by insurance and the science is
very very well established, and after the treatment is swelling, pain,
(01:46):
night cramps all disappears. What's important to know is if
left untreated, it can be a very serious conditioned even deadly.
Even asymptomatic venus and sufficiency could increase risk of DVT
more than five times.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
How does someone know if they might have it ultra sound?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
First of all, it's because it's very common. You can
almost self diagnose if someone has a bulging veins, big
roppie arcos veins, swollen legs, discoloration, brownish red discoloration, think
skin nine crabs, ninety nine percent it will be veins.
Because it's very very common, and the perfect diagnosis is
(02:32):
just ultra sound. It's an inexpensive, easy ultrasound basketb ulture sound.
The important thing it needs to be done in standing
position because we need to check how valves work against
the gravity. If ultra sound is done in a lying position,
you'll not see it. It needs to be in standing
and not every laboratory knows how to do ultra sound
(02:55):
standing position. Usually just in the places specialized or vein treatments.
This stud is done. So it's very important to find clinics,
dain treatment clinic that will help with this. And then
we can identify exactly what which veins are have a
broken valve and we can do the treatment basically close
(03:17):
those segments and redirect the blood flow into the right
veins instead of the wrong veins. That's and it's done,
and they will just sound guidance under we exactly see
what we're doing, and then the result and outcome and
improvement is extraordinary and immediate.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Great, will you keep saying it's treatable? Is it curable?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yes, yes, it's curable. So these veins, it's mechanical problem.
We fix this mechanical problem. Think like a flood in
the basement. You have a main pump and some pump
and if valves between those pumps pipes are broken, whatever
goes up falls down. So we fix the problem with
the broken ves out and sometime just takes the water
(04:03):
up and and flood stops. Exactly the same thing happens
with the veins when we remove these segments. They take
blood in the wrong opposite direction and everything goes in
the right direction. Everything stops. No more swelling, no more pain.
Because veins, you know, bad circulation creates two types of problem.
(04:26):
It's congestion and poor nutrition. Poor nutrition leads to pain
conjunction to swelling, and because of stagnation, think like a
pond against instead of river, you have this DVT, you know,
dip vein trombosis because blood flow is sluggish and trump
(04:47):
can happen. That's the problem, the biggest problem with the condition.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
And I would imagine your recommendation would be if anyone
thinks that they may have this, have any of the
symptoms that you talked about a moment ago, they get
right in to see a doctor right and go to
one of the US vein clinics.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
We tried to see most of the patients within two
or three days because we have so many locations. We
have almost hundred seventy locations to three states, more than
fourteen New York cologue. We work seven days a week,
long hours, just try to make sure that people have
access to care and then if left un treated in
(05:29):
many situations, disease progress towards the day. In Alcour's wounds.
Between one to two percent of Medicare patients have open
wood from vein disease, which is terrible, completely preventable, and
completely treatable. So I think hopefully, I'm sure President Trump
will be fine and he will get appropriate treatment, and
(05:51):
hopefully many many thousands of listeners will pay attention and
help themselves by simply calling and second treatment. That will
be very successful, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Right, there's always some good that comes out of this,
and people get to learn a lot. And I think
a lot of people that didn't know what you just
told them, no, now, thank you so much for being
with his.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Doctor John, And I can only comment that President Trump
and Tayland that extraordinary thing, providing transparency and shading light
to health issues that no other president's ever done before.
So that's that's a very good trend.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Yeah, very well said, Yeah, that's exactly right. Most hie
them and and he didn't. He came right out and
said this, and he might save a lot of people.
Doctor Jan katz Nelson, founder and CEO of us A
Vain Clinics over one hundred and sixty locations. You got
forty right here in New York alone, and they've been
around for forty years. By the way, you can learn
(06:54):
more about it and maybe you can get an appointment
if you need to. Us a Vain Clinics dot com.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
This has been a podcast from wor
This is a podcast from wor Back now to the
WR Saturday Morning Show with Larry Minty.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Welcome back. President Trump is diagnosed with chronic venial insufficiency.
What exactly does that mean? We have one of the
world's leading experts to ask. Doctor Jan katz Nelson is
founder and CEO of US vein Clinics. Doctor, thanks so
much for spending some time with us today on this.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Thank you for calling me.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Absolutely. Let's let's start out with what he has and
maybe you can explain it to me.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
So, President Trump has a very common condition called superficial
venus in sufficiency. But thirty percent of adults and this
age suffer from this condition and it's basically prom congestion
that caused by broken valve and preventing return of venus
used blood towards the heart and personal Trump works very hard,
(01:01):
he tends a lot, he travels a lot on the plane,
and it's all is not very thin, and it's all
exacerbate the problem with the legs. It's very common, easy
to diagnose, and I'm glad it's just a veiness insufficiency,
not heart problem, not kidney problem. And the reason it's
(01:25):
good because it's easily treatable. The treatments for ess insufficiency
it's the ablatians or sclotherapies and take ten to fifteen minutes.
They're actually all covered by insurance and the science is
very very well established, and after the treatment is swelling, pain,
(01:46):
night cramps all disappears. What's important to know is if
left untreated, it can be a very serious conditioned even deadly.
Even asymptomatic venus and sufficiency could increase risk of DVT
more than five times.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
How does someone know if they might have it ultra sound?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
First of all, it's because it's very common. You can
almost self diagnose if someone has a bulging veins, big
roppie arcos veins, swollen legs, discoloration, brownish red discoloration, think
skin nine crabs, ninety nine percent it will be veins.
Because it's very very common, and the perfect diagnosis is
(02:32):
just ultra sound. It's an inexpensive, easy ultrasound basketb ulture sound.
The important thing it needs to be done in standing
position because we need to check how valves work against
the gravity. If ultra sound is done in a lying position,
you'll not see it. It needs to be in standing
and not every laboratory knows how to do ultra sound
(02:55):
standing position. Usually just in the places specialized or vein treatments.
This stud is done. So it's very important to find clinics,
dain treatment clinic that will help with this. And then
we can identify exactly what which veins are have a
broken valve and we can do the treatment basically close
(03:17):
those segments and redirect the blood flow into the right
veins instead of the wrong veins. That's and it's done,
and they will just sound guidance under we exactly see
what we're doing, and then the result and outcome and
improvement is extraordinary and immediate.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Great, will you keep saying it's treatable? Is it curable?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yes, yes, it's curable. So these veins, it's mechanical problem.
We fix this mechanical problem. Think like a flood in
the basement. You have a main pump and some pump
and if valves between those pumps pipes are broken, whatever
goes up falls down. So we fix the problem with
the broken ves out and sometime just takes the water
(04:03):
up and and flood stops. Exactly the same thing happens
with the veins when we remove these segments. They take
blood in the wrong opposite direction and everything goes in
the right direction. Everything stops. No more swelling, no more pain.
Because veins, you know, bad circulation creates two types of problem.
(04:26):
It's congestion and poor nutrition. Poor nutrition leads to pain
conjunction to swelling, and because of stagnation, think like a
pond against instead of river, you have this DVT, you know,
dip vein trombosis because blood flow is sluggish and trump
(04:47):
can happen. That's the problem, the biggest problem with the condition.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
And I would imagine your recommendation would be if anyone
thinks that they may have this, have any of the
symptoms that you talked about a moment ago, they get
right in to see a doctor right and go to
one of the US vein clinics.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
We tried to see most of the patients within two
or three days because we have so many locations. We
have almost hundred seventy locations to three states, more than
fourteen New York cologue. We work seven days a week,
long hours, just try to make sure that people have
access to care and then if left un treated in
(05:29):
many situations, disease progress towards the day. In Alcour's wounds.
Between one to two percent of Medicare patients have open
wood from vein disease, which is terrible, completely preventable, and
completely treatable. So I think hopefully, I'm sure President Trump
will be fine and he will get appropriate treatment, and
(05:51):
hopefully many many thousands of listeners will pay attention and
help themselves by simply calling and second treatment. That will
be very successful, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Right, there's always some good that comes out of this,
and people get to learn a lot. And I think
a lot of people that didn't know what you just
told them, no, now, thank you so much for being
with his.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Doctor John, And I can only comment that President Trump
and Tayland that extraordinary thing, providing transparency and shading light
to health issues that no other president's ever done before.
So that's that's a very good trend.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Yeah, very well said, Yeah, that's exactly right. Most hie
them and and he didn't. He came right out and
said this, and he might save a lot of people.
Doctor Jan katz Nelson, founder and CEO of us A
Vain Clinics over one hundred and sixty locations. You got
forty right here in New York alone, and they've been
around for forty years. By the way, you can learn
(06:54):
more about it and maybe you can get an appointment
if you need to. Us a Vain Clinics dot com.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
This has been a podcast from wor
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