Winner of the 1st Bauerfeind Phlebology Award -
Dr. Yared Herouy
The first award winner studied the effects of the compression therapy on the endothelial function of varicose veins.
The Bauerfeind Phlebology Award of the IUP is granted for outstanding achievements in compression therapy. The jury granted the first award to Dr. Yared Herouy in 2001 in the framework of the 14th IUP World Congress in Rome.
The specialist for dermatology and venerology, born in 1965, convinced the jury with his research project “The Influence of Compression Therapy on the Transendothelial Barrier Function in Patients with Chronic Venous Insufficiency“.
The research carried out in accordance with this concept is based on the well-known fact that the epifascial venous system in patients with chronic venous insufficiency is subject to a heavy compression load due to an ambulatory hypertension, the result of which is increased diffusion of fluid into the perivascular tissue. The permeability of the endothelial cell layer is of great importance for the formation and prevention of edemas. It is above all determined by the permeability of the joints between neighbouring endothelial cells, the so-called tight junctions. The permeability of these tight junctions is in turn controlled by membrane proteins – or tight junction molecules. Dr. Herouy studied these specific markers of the transendothelial barrier function in tissue samples of skin lesions before and after compression therapy. Thus it is possible to provide results about the influence of compression therapy on the endothelial function of varicose veins.
