Saphenion®: Berlin a center for vascular surgery

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“.

Saphenion®: Kompressionstherapie beim älteren Patienten

Die chronischen Venenerkrankungen am Bein (CVI) gehören zu den häufigsten Erkrankungen der Weltbevölkerung. Allein nur Deutschland betrachtet, leiden ca. 25% aller Frauen und 20% aller Männer an der CVI. Dabei ist die Häufigkeit und Schwere dieser Erkrankung mit dem Alter der Menschen zunehmend.

Saphenion® – Varicose veins in children/adolescents

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.