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THE FIRST PHLEBOLOGICAL CLINIC IN KOREA
BY DR.Y.K.SHIM
DR.SHIM'S PROFILE.
He was born in 1954 at Ahnseong, Kyoungki
District. Korea. He graduated from Yonsei
University Medical college in 1979 and received
Master degree and Ph.D in same university.
He finished the residency course in National
Medical Center and become a specialist in
Plastic Surgery in 1984.
He had worked over 10 years in the National
Medical Center which is formerly founded
by Scandinavian Countries after 1950' Korean
War. During these time he trained the 20
junior doctors became specialist, and he
wrote several books for doctors and common
public. Those are " The basic technique
of plastic surgery", "Wound healing,
tissue transplantation", "The
essentials of clinical plastic surgery",
"The cosmetic therapeutic method of
varicose vein" and for the public,
"What is cosmetic surgery ?",
" Cosmetic surgery can heal your mind!
", etc.
And he presented clinical papers over 50
articles on the Journal of Korean Plastic
Surgery. He received Academic award in 1988
by the Society of Korean Plastic Surgery.
He visited Uppsala University, Sweden &
Kitasato University, Japan as a rotating
professor in 1990-1991.
He presented his papers in the 3rd world
symposium of tissue expansion in 1991, Sapporo
Japan and in the 1st Korea Japan Symposium
of Plastic Surgery.
Now he is acting as a visiting professor
in many universities in Korea, and he is
joining the International Society of plastic
surgery, cosmetic surgery, Japan Society
of cosmetic surgery, and recently American
college of phlebolgy, Union de Internationale
Phlebologie, so on.
After full getting the clinical experiences,
he opened the Dr.Shim's Plastic Aesthetic
Clinic in 1993 in the Southern part of Seoul.
During the practice in his own private
clinic, he found many patients who are suffering
from unsighty engorged vein in leg and he
reminded the sclerotherapy of vein in Sweden
1990. So he contacted and could visit Doctor
Lill, Eduardus Krankenhaus, Koeln, Germany.
He could train the precise operative technique,
especially for the crossectomy (precise
ligation of saphenous vein tributaries)
and ambulatory phlebectomy that means getting
rid of diseased vein using very small hook
without leaving big scar. And furthermore
he visited doctor Michel Schadeck and Fredrick
Vin. Paris who are very famous in the sclerotherapy
and Duplex guided sclerotherapy without
operation. This method is very famous for
not leaving unsighty scar and can treat
the origin site of venous varicosities.
So he started to treat the spider vein
from 1995 and varicose vein using the most
advanced German and French way and his results
in Korea was sensational and successful.
The patients were very satisfactory for
the result and nobody has recurrence. Under
the basis of huge experiences, he developed
his own way of operative technique and the
guideline of treatment that are the most
appropriate to the Korean patients.
He is always emphasizing that the accurate
diagnosis and proper treatment is prerequisite
to the best results. He invested so much
to the hemodynamic laboratory equipment
such as photopletysmography, Doppler, Acuson
color ultrasound, and so on.
The main advantages of his treatments
are
1. the best cosmetic results with the least
scar as he has been majored cosmetic surgery
for many years.
2. the least pain
3. all procedures are performed under the
local anesthesia
4. It is not necessary to admit to hospital
5. the quickest recovery time
6. the lowest recurrence rate
All of these facts are broadcasted by KBS,
SBS TV news in Korea.
And he presented his own paper " the
treatment of varicose vein in 1,200 patients
in Korea" at European section of Union
de Internationale phlobologie, Bremen, Germany,
in Sep.26.1999.
He invested to set up one phlebological
clinic Dalian city, China on Oct.2000 and
mainly treating varicose vein for Chinese.
His experience of treating varicose vein
is now summing up to 3,000 patients and
this is the most many clinical cases in
Asia.
He was elected as a vice president of
the Korean Society of Phlebology on Mar.31.2001
and he can dedicate to this academic society
for the development of phlebology in Korea
and China.
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