Rafaelo is a revolutionary treatment for haemorrhoids that uses high-frequency radio waves. It can stop you experiencing pain and other symptoms in just 15 minutes.
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To treat haemorrhoids
Rafaelo for haemorrhoids consultation at The London Clinic
The Rafaelo procedure is a new and effective treatment for internal haemorrhoids (also known as piles).
It significantly reduces and gets rid of symptoms such as bleeding, discharge, irritation and pain.
The London Clinic is one of a handful of private hospitals in London to offer this revolutionary technique.
Rafaelo uses radiofrequency ablation to precisely treat haemorrhoids without damaging surrounding healthy tissue.
This allows you to return home on the same day of your treatment.
You should also experience little or no pain after your procedure and be able to quickly return to your normal daily activities.
FAQs
Rafaelo is usually done under local anaesthetic, or sedation to help you relax.
It involves your consultant inserting a small device into your bottom (back passage) called a proctoscope.
This allows your surgeon to examine your haemorrhoids.
Your surgeon then passes a special needle probe (the Rafaelo probe) through the proctoscope into the cushion of a haemorrhoid.
Radiofrequency energy is then passed through the Rafaelo probe to treat the haemorrhoid.
The aim is to limit the blood supply to the haemorrhoid to cause it to shrink and fall away, relieving you of your symptoms.
The whole Rafaelo procedure takes an average of 15 minutes.
The benefits of Rafaelo include:
- Quick relief of symptoms
- Mild bleeding or no bleeding
- Only a local anaesthetic is used for the procedure
- Fast return to daily activity
- The procedure lasts around 15 minutes
- You don’t need to stay overnight in hospital
- Far less invasive than conventional surgery (haemorrhoidectomy)
- Medication
- Banding (rubber band ligation)
- Injections (sclerotherapy)
- Conventional haemorrhoidectomy
- Stapled haemorrhoidopexy (stapling)
- Haemorrhoidal artery ligation
- Electrotherapy
- Infrared coagulation
If you’ve got internal haemorrhoids (graded 1, 2 or 3), your consultant is likely to recommend Rafaelo.
Rafaelo can be used to reduce the size of some grade 4 haemorrhoids and improve symptoms, such as pain, that you may be experiencing.
If Rafaelo cannot remove a grade 4 haemorrhoid completely, surgery can help.
We offer Fixed Price Packages
Where possible, we’ll provide a fixed-price package for your hospital care. This covers your hospital stay, nursing, and use of our facilities, giving you a clear guide to what those costs will be.
- Pre-op assessment
- Hospital stay, nursing care and meals
- Tests, scans and physio during your stay
- Take-home medication (up to 5 days)
- Post-op follow-up appointments
- Standard equipment or prosthesis (if needed)
- Unplanned extended stay or ITU (if clinically required)
- Initial consultation and any tests done during it
- Consultant and anaesthetist fees (quoted separately)
- Physio or therapy before or after your stay
- Diagnostics before admission (unless agreed in your plan)
- Specialist medication beyond 5 days
- Ambulance transport or bespoke prosthetics
Your consultant’s fees are quoted separately and shared directly by their office after your consultation. These professional fees cover the time, expertise, and care provided by your consultant before, during, and after your treatment. See our full terms and conditions
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We’ve teamed up with Chrysalis to offer you funding options that allow you to spread the cost of your treatment.
If you choose to pay for your treatment at The London Clinic over 12 months, you can make use of a great 0% interest option and pay nothing extra. Or you can choose to pay over two to five years at 14.9% APR.
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