Saphenion®: 2022 – das Jahr der Jubiläen. 35 Jahre in der Chirurgie aktiv, 25 Jahre Gefäßpraxis in Berlin und 10 Jahre in Rostock – Anlass zu Freude und Nachdenken. Sehr viel ist erlebbar geworden, sehr viele persönliche Gespräche haben wir führen können, interessante Entwicklungen in beiden Praxen erlebt.
Saphenion®: Berlin a center for vascular surgery – The beginning: The development of vascular surgery on a scientific basis only began in the last third of the 19th. century. It is true that the Greeks, Romans, and Arabia as well as at the time of the European Renaissance carried out experiments on the „blood-carrying tubes of the human being“ and described some therapeutic procedures for hemostasis and removal of dilated veins.
Berlin surgeons made a major contribution to the formation and development of vascular surgery – particularly to the treatment of varicose veins. At the beginning of the 20th century, the city of Berlin began to develop into a center for the new field of „vascular surgery“.
The tendency to varicose veins is already innate in over 90% of our patients. So, it is not the defective venous valve that turns the vein into a varicose vein, it is the defective vein wall that leads to the expansion of the cutaneous veins and thus sooner or later to the defective venous valve and thus to the development of the varicose veins. Young people are also affected to some extent. The congenital lack of venous valves, which is also possible, is a very rare exception.