Dr. Norman Bein
General Surgery
st louis/creve coeur, MO
53 years experience
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General Surgery
Phlebology
Languages spoken
English
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A 40-year-old member asked:
Dr. Norman Beinanswered
General Surgery 53 years experience
No relation: Hypertension as a rule affects the arteries not the veins...The venous system is not directly impacted by hypertension...Venous hypertension is a diff... Read More
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A 44-year-old member asked:
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General Surgery 53 years experience
Blood clots: Thrombosis is clotting and when it is in the vein it is called venous thrombosis...If it is inflamed it si called throbophlebitis...The causes are se... Read More
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A 62-year-old female asked:
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General Surgery 53 years experience
That is corretc: The tipps procedure is performed by radilogists and is a non-surgical approach to the treatment of portal hypertension usually due to cirrhotic alchol... Read More
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A 31-year-old member asked:
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General Surgery 53 years experience
None: You may hide these veins with make-up but laser treatments to these areas will give the best results in our hands.
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A 30-year-old member asked:
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General Surgery 53 years experience
Physical exercse: Prominent veins of the arms in a man your age are almost always due to a decrease in body fat making the veins ppear more prominent...These veins are ... Read More
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A 46-year-old member asked:
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General Surgery 53 years experience
Depends on location: Inflammation of veins is a common problem associated with incompetence of the veins...This is seen more often in lower than upper extremities..The pro... Read More
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A 41-year-old member asked:
Dr. Norman Beinanswered
General Surgery 53 years experience
Yes: Yes but the skills are not transferable.
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A 42-year-old member asked:
Dr. Norman Beinanswered
General Surgery 53 years experience
One travels: An embolism travels through the blood stream lodging away from its point of origin...A thrombosis is a blood clot that stays in place.
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A female asked:
Dr. Norman Beinanswered
General Surgery 53 years experience
Sitz baths: Sitz baths, colace, (docusate sodium) metamucil force fluids, do not wipe vigorously.
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A 39-year-old member asked:
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General Surgery 53 years experience
No relation: A young healthy person has no cause to be worried about enlarged neck veins...An older person may have underlyng heart issue that should be investigat... Read More
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A 49-year-old member asked:
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General Surgery 53 years experience
Yes: You are probably looking at blood in or outside your veins that has escaped normal circulation...Look at these areas as 'bruiss' where the pigment ele... Read More
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A member asked:
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Was it a brain aneur: Cannot offer an opinion unless i know the location of the aneurysm.
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A 62-year-old female asked:
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General Surgery 53 years experience
No: I suspect you have a venous valve issue...Heat to the area may resolve the issue...A true phlebolith in this are is unusual but completely harmless...... Read More
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General Surgery 53 years experience
There is evidence: There is no known etiology for this problem..Although simil;ar in its impact to macular degeneration the resulting blindness is not along the same apt... Read More
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A 21-year-old member asked:
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General Surgery 53 years experience
Be more specific: Cannot answer unless you are more soecific as to your symptoms.
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A 37-year-old member asked:
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Physical exam: This benign condition must be evalauted by an experienced physician who will determing with you whether removal and evaluation under a microscope is ... Read More
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A 41-year-old member asked:
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Maybe: Travel thrombosis is a well-recognised problem ...Dehydration, limited movement and a stting postion all contribute to slow blood flow which leads to ... Read More
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A 40-year-old member asked:
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Yes: Femoral hernias can obstruct and strangle the blood supply to the bowel...I have always repaired these when first noted in my office.
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A 43-year-old member asked:
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General Surgery 53 years experience
No relation: Spider veins are not the usual cause of the pains you describe.
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A 43-year-old member asked:
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General Surgery 53 years experience
Difficult to say: Banding of esophageal varices is a non-surgical treatment for these potentially lethal bleeding sites...Depending on the underlying disease, banding m... Read More
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A 20-year-old male asked:
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General Surgery 53 years experience
Maybe: You need to see a physician to begin appropriate management of what seems to be a clot in your dorsal penile vein.
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A 43-year-old member asked:
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General Surgery 53 years experience
No: Any lymphedema seen post implant is almost always is due to the surgical technique used to place the implant.
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A 34-year-old member asked:
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General Surgery 53 years experience
Yes: The presence of these vascular skin changes is one of the peripheral manifestations of liver- disease...Although not all angiomas are related to liver... Read More
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A 40-year-old member asked:
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General Surgery 53 years experience
None: Although injection of these veins is a way to treat this cosmetic problem, laser therapy works better in my practice and is safer overall.
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A 44-year-old member asked:
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General Surgery 53 years experience
No relation: There is no relation although all of these problems can occur in the same patient.
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A 46-year-old member asked:
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General Surgery 53 years experience
No: If the veins are on the top of your feet, they are of no concern unless accompanied by ulcers...If they are on the underside of your feet they need to... Read More
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A 44-year-old female asked:
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General Surgery 53 years experience
Unusual: Ivc filters should not cause legs to swell of and by themselves. Filters can be placed inappropriately initially or may migrate...They are always plac... Read More
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A 36-year-old member asked:
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General Surgery 53 years experience
Maybe: The inactivity and possible limitation of movement engendered by your injury is far more likely to be the cause of vein problems.
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A 42-year-old male asked:
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General Surgery 53 years experience
No: ultrasound will determine if your valves are damaged...not all clots lead to damaged valves
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A 38-year-old member asked:
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General Surgery 53 years experience
Genetics: Most varicose problems stem from heredity...Certain lifesyles and work situations can increase the stress on vein valves and bring out an underlying i... Read More
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A 41-year-old male asked:
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General Surgery 53 years experience
Yes: No medical reason that alcohol in moderation will be a problem with this problem.
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A 48-year-old member asked:
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General Surgery 53 years experience
Maybe: Compression hose should be worn for long car trips( greater than 2 hours).
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A 31-year-old member asked:
Dr. Norman Beinanswered
General Surgery 53 years experience
There are several: There is a strong hereditary influence in the development of varicose veins...Stress facors such as prenancy, hormal changes, trauma to name a few can... Read More
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A 37-year-old member asked:
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Compression hose: These problems are best dealt with in lymphedema clinics...All large cites have these clics attached to university medical centers...Compression hose ... Read More
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A 21-year-old female asked:
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General Surgery 53 years experience
Ulcers: Injection of hemorrhoids is safe in most cases however erosion of the underlying skin may occure following treatment.
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No relation: Risks of transmission of blood borne disease without true erosion through the skin are minimal if at all.
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A 55-year-old male asked:
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General Surgery 53 years experience
Jugular: The most prominent vein in the neck is the jugular vein that drains into the chest and then the heart via the superior vena cava...As it is in such cl... Read More
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A member asked:
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General Surgery 53 years experience
Several things: Blood clots rarely present as painless lumps..An ultrsound study in a surgeon's office should allay your fears.
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A 40-year-old member asked:
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General Surgery 53 years experience
Yes: Heat, elevation and nsaids are all useful but upper extremity thrombosis is so rare that a medical evaluation tio make sure that there is not an under... Read More
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A male asked:
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General Surgery 53 years experience
When off pain meds: If yor repair was successful you maky return to work when you no longer need pain meds..
The repair, if successful does not entail any prolonged reco... Read More
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A 32-year-old female asked:
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General Surgery 53 years experience
No relation: Many causes for constipation...Most not related to gallbladder function or dysfunction.
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A 24-year-old female asked:
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General Surgery 53 years experience
Weight gai common: I have seen this amount of weight gain following gb surgery...You must be placed on a medically supervised diet and lose this weight asap as you are h... Read More
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A 21-year-old member asked:
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General Surgery 53 years experience
Unknown: Although we know the disease process, there is as of yet no root cause for the initiation of the disease that has been discovered.
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A 34-year-old member asked:
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General Surgery 53 years experience
Cannot: Lcis and dcis are both conditions are variants of changes in the breast that can only be determined by biopsy.
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A 42-year-old member asked:
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General Surgery 53 years experience
No: I would not advise this...If you have concerns, an ultrasound study in a surgeon'soffice is advisable.
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A 40-year-old member asked:
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General Surgery 53 years experience
Yes: Ipl (intense pulsed light) is used to lighten dark areas anywhere on the body...There are better modalities such as laser and sclerotherapy to deral w... Read More
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A 47-year-old member asked:
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General Surgery 53 years experience
Yes: If treated correctly by atttacking the underlying problem of the superficial veins there should be no recurrance...If your provider does not treat the... Read More
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A 39-year-old male asked:
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General Surgery 53 years experience
No relation: Painful hands and feet are almost never due to varicose veins...These superficial veins serve no true purpose and should not be the casue of any sympt... Read More
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A 41-year-old female asked:
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General Surgery 53 years experience
No: Stasis ulcers are almost always due to venous incompetence for which unna boots are a treatment but definitely not a cure.The abi test measures the r... Read More
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A 27-year-old female asked:
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General Surgery 53 years experience
How soon after: Passing of clot s/p menses is common...If you notice an unexpectedly large proliferaion of clot, however, a visit to your gyn is strongly recommended ... Read More
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Mar 30, 2015
Dr. Bein is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
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Mar 31, 2015
Dr. Bein is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
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Im sorry but your wrong there is a drw order it goes: blood cultures, yellow, ltblue red,green,lavender,gray. Im a phlebotomist
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thanxs doc but i already tried laxatives and siltz baths,no use
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Education & Training
Medical/Graduate school
Hahnemann Medical College, PA
Graduated 1970MD
Awards
Top Phlebologist, Third Place, National - Winter
2013
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