Dr. Charles Hunt on President Trump's chronic venous insufficiency diagnosis

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, yesterday President Trump was diagnosed with a chronic venus insufficiency.
I think that's say venus insufficiency. Caroline Lovitt made the announcement.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
The President underwent a comprehensive examination and revealed chronic venus insufficiency,
a be nine in common condition, particularly in individuals over
the age of seventy. There was no evidence of deep
vein from bosis or arterial disease.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
All right, all in all that can be treated. You
heard the word benign and that so well, let's get
in a little bit more on this with doctor Charles
Hunt from Alabama, Vain and Restoration here in Hoover. Doctor,
welcome in, good to.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Chat with you, Good morning, good to talk to you.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
So this diagnosis, as she said, benign here, nothing serious.
It can be treated by I guess putting your legs
up and putting compression socks on. You deal with us
all the time where you work.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yes, correct, So it's a benign condition. The good news
the president he doesn't have arteria disease, which means there's
no risk of him losing his limbs. Venus disease is
the benign condition that one third of Americans have, probably
more it's just underdiagnosed, in my opinion, and it's a
simple diagnose. It's a simple treatment. You can wear impression hose,

(01:11):
but that's called palliation. It doesn't really cure you. It
just sort of treats the symptoms. But if you want
to be cured, the definitive cure is either what we
do is we ablate the vein. We make the staff
in this vein, which is responsible to the issue basically
go away. It's like removing a gall bladder appendix. If
it's broke, you remove it.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Now do you see these things because he was having
some swelling with all of this, does that make the
veins pop out more? And you know when you talk
about how to you know, fix it and not just
treat the symptoms. What's the ablation? How do you do that?
And you do this in your office? And is this
aesthetically something that's more done or is there a necessary

(01:50):
reason to do it?

Speaker 3 (01:52):
Now? Well you ask your good question. So the first
thing is mom and dad give you the disease. So
it's like Hank Williams, it's a family tradition. We get
the venus disease and thenvity causes blood to fall from
our head to our feet. So what we do is
we have these veins called saftness veins, and it's a
superficial or shallow vein, and the valve no longer can
touch because your vein is dilated in its diameter or

(02:13):
the valve gets broken, so basically blood flows the wrong direction,
it pools in your legs and causes venus congestion. It's
very similar to say, if your heart valve doesn't work,
you get lungs congestion, or your legs get congested, so
you get venus hypertension. Excessive pressure in the vein which
results in water leaking out of your vein into your tissues,
so you can get swelling. But the manifestations can be

(02:34):
from asymptomatic to massive destructive skin damage. If you ever
seem somebody that has a discolored leg, or the skin
on their leg becomes hard and waxy and almost like
it basically becomes mummified, So your skin starts dying. And
so it's not a cosmetic condition. It's a medical condition,
and so it's a serious condition. And the beauty of

(02:55):
it is if you intervene early enough, we can prevent
skin destruction and a lot of complications to go with it. Now,
one of the things is if your veins get dilated,
you can get varicose veins. And we assume that they're
we know, healthy, medical school and my residency has trained
that they're aesthetically you know, not pretty. But the complication
is about you can get clots in them and then

(03:16):
the clocks can basically propagate or grow into the deep system, right,
and you know that was the thing. So he also
doesn't have DBT, which is actually very good for the president.
So the bottom line is it's a simple treatment. About
seventeen hundred years ago, a room and came up with
the idea of destroying the vein, but it took seventeen
hundred years of technology to get where we're at. Wow. Well,
so all we do is either you either use a
chemical or heat in the form of energy in the

(03:38):
form of heat to destroy the vein.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
When you say this is a benign condition though, and
that's what they've said at the White House, to me,
that sounds like, okay, no worries here is that benign
today and could lead to problems down the road.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
Well, I would never actually use the word benign for
a medical condition because it's really designed for either a
tumor or you know, cancers, either benign or so for
this condition, it's not fatal, but it does have serious complications.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Gotcha.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
Well, it's not going to pose a risk to him
and his daily function over his lifetime. And you know
another thing they said is actually that's incorrect. Is it's
a very common disease. I've seen a nine year old
with massive skin destruction, one of the worst cases I've
ever seen. So typically as we get older, it gets worse,
it becomes more prominent. But it's a disease for you know,
pretty much any age. It gets more prominent as we

(04:27):
get older. But I wouldn't call it the nine. I
would call it non lethal. And uh, you know, but
he does need to get it addressed at some point.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
All right, very good, well doctor, I sure to appreciate
your insight on this, and you know, if you've got
some concerns yourself or something like this, Doctor Charles Hunt,
Alabama vein and Restoration and who were certainly on top
of all these and other vein issues as well. Doctor,
thank you so much, a good chat with you. Have
a great weekend, all right

Speaker 3 (04:52):
Thank you, God bless you.