Saphenion®: Memories of Sauerbruch

And the idea grew in us to do a little historical work on the subject of minimally invasive varicose vein therapy, and so we began with the necessary research in the specialist literature. So we were all the more surprised when we discovered that the idea of ​​gluing wasn’t all that new. And now PD Lahl told – rather casually – that until 1968 he had also worked with glucose solutions. This is exactly what we found in our research and this is exactly what led us back to Ferdinand Sauerbruch. Admittedly, it was more of a coincidence, and admittedly, a very small star in the big sky of surgery, but still very interesting and belonging to the present day.

Saphenion®: VenaSeal Meilenstein Krampfadertherapie

Saphenion®: VenaSeal Meilenstein Krampfadertherapie: Die VenaSeal® – Story beginnt eigentlich schon Ende der 20er Jahre des letzten Jahrhunderts (1930), als Sauerbruch und sein Oberarzt Bierendempfel an der Berliner Charitè die Injektionstherapie von Krampfadern mittels hochkonzentrierter Glucoselösung (70% hochklebende Lösung) zur Therapie der 1. Wahl erklären und Ferdinand Sauerbruch seinen Chirurgen von einer klassisch radikalchirurgische Therapie (Stripping) abzuraten begann.
Die schonende Behandlung von Krampfadern und Besenreisern ist in den vergangenen 25 Jahren ein großes Stück vorangekommen. Seit Anfang des Jahrtausends begannen die Venenspezialisten, mittels Kathetertechnik die radikalchirurgische Stripping – Operationen ab zu lösen.
Das VenaSeal® – Verfahren zum Verkleben von defekten Stammvenen stellt den vorläufigen Höhepunkt der Entwicklung dar. Man macht sich hierbei die Wirkung des bereits seit mehr als 50 Jahren in nahezu allen operativen medizinischen Disziplinen eingesetzten biologischen Superklebers Cyanoacrylat zunutze.

Saphenion®: VenaSeal milestone varicose vein therapy: The VenaSeal® story actually began at the end of the 1920s (1930), when Sauerbruch and his senior physician Bierendempfel at the Charité in Berlin declared injection therapy for varicose veins using a highly concentrated glucose solution (70% highly adhesive solution) to be the treatment of choice and Ferdinand Sauerbruch began to advise his surgeons against classic radical surgery (stripping). The gentle treatment of varicose veins and spider veins has come a long way in the last 25 years. Since the beginning of the millennium, vein specialists have begun to use catheter technology to replace radical surgical stripping operations. The VenaSeal® procedure for bonding defective truncal veins represents the current pinnacle of development. It makes use of the effect of the biological superglue cyanoacrylate, which has been used in almost all surgical medical disciplines for more than 50 years.

Saphenion®: Erst Venenkleber dann Zeitungen ausgetragen

Saphenion®: Erst Venenkleber, dann Zeitungen ausgetragen – Man glaubt es kaum, und es war auch uns völlig neu. Unsere Patientin wurde simultan an drei Stammkrampfadern mittels des Venenklebers operiert und fuhr nach der OP und daran anschließender Vacuum-Kompressions – und SMT – Therapie unmittelbar mit dem eigenen Fahrrad los, um Zeitungen aus zu tragen.
First vein glue, then newspaper delivery? It’s hard to believe, and it was also completely new to us. Our patient underwent simultaneous surgery on three truncal varicose veins using the vein adhesive and immediately after the operation and subsequent vacuum compression and SMT therapy, she set off on her own bike to deliver newspapers.

Saphenion®: Intermittierende Kompressions-Therapie nach Venenkleber

Saphenion® hat vor 10 Jahren begonnen, allen Patienten unmittelbar nach einer Krampfadertherapie mittels Venenkleber oder auch nach einer Mikroschaumtherapie mit Sealing Foam (Klebender Mikroschaum) eine Kompressionsmassage der therapierten Beine anzubieten. Sämtliche Patienten haben gerne diese Massagetherapie  der operierten Beine mittels Vacuum – Massage – Computer unmittelbar nach der Therapie angenommen.

Saphenion® has began 10 years ago at the praxis in Rostock / Baltic Sea to make a massage of the leg, we have treated with VenaSeal or Sealing Foam immediately after operation. All of patients have used this special service with a vacuum massage computer imediately post intervention.

Saphenion®: Vein glue versus radiofrequency therapy – 7 years comparison

Vein glue versus radiofrequency therapy – 7 years: For more than 20 years now, truncal varicose veins has increasingly been treated endovenously with catheter support. It all began with the rather cumbersome VNUS® Closure process and the easier-to-use linear laser. This was followed in 2006/2007 by the bipolar RFITT® catheter and the VNUS® ClosureFast system as well as the radial laser. However, it should be said that following historical medical truth, endovenous sclerotherapy has been developed and used since 1911. And already in the late 20s, many surgeons in Germany used the gluing technique with sugar solutions. Also, Ferdinand Sauerbruch of the Charitè hospital in Berlin was a friend of this method.

Saphenion®: 20 Jahre RFITT-Radiowellenkatheter

Saphenion®: 20 Jahre RFITT-Radiowellenkatheter In der Krampfadertherapie – und seit 2008 auch bei der Therapie der Bakerzyste von Kniegelenken im Einsatz: Die in Deutschland von den Krankenkassen immer noch als einzige schulmedizinische Therapiemethode betrachtete radikalchirurgische Stripping-OP hat sich zwar in den letzten Jahren operationstechnisch und instrumentell verbessert, bleibt aber ungeachtet dessen immer eine radikale OP-Methode mit all ihren Nachteilen und Nebenwirkungen. Bereits seit 1906 – also über 119 Jahre – wird diese Methode eingesetzt.

Saphenion®: 20 years of RFITT radio wave catheters In varicose vein therapy – and since 2008 also used in the treatment of Baker’s cysts in knee joints: although the radical surgical stripping procedure, which is still considered the only conventional treatment method by health insurance companies in Germany, has improved in terms of surgical techniques and instruments in recent years, it still remains a radical surgical method with all its disadvantages and side effects. This method has been used since 1906 – 119 years ago.