abt kardiologie klein

Range of Procedures Available

 

All invasive and non-invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures required by adults with heart and circulatory diseases

  • The whole spectrum of conventional procedures available for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the heart and blood vessels, with 24-hour emergency service
     
  • Valvuloplasty (enlargement of constricted heart valves) using a special catheter technique
     
  • Enlargement of blood vessels: the coronary arteries (percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, PTCA), carotid artery, renal arteries, arm and leg arteries (percutaneous transluminal angioplasty)
     
  • Diagnostics for cardiovascular diseases using ultra-modern non-invasive imaging procedures such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT)
     
  • Specialized treatment of coronary artery stenoses: implantation of stents and drug-eluting stents; local radiotherapy (brachytherapy)
     
  • Closure of defects of the atrial and ventricular septum by placement of a special device implanted during catheterization
     
  • Procedures to reduce pathological excessive growth of the heart muscle (transcoronary ablation of septal hypertrophy, TASH)
     
  • Pacemaker implantation to optimize heart action (synchronization by means of triple-chamber pacemaker)
     
  • Highly advanced therapeutic procedures to suppress severe heart rhythm disturbances by the implantation of defibrillators (AICD) and aggregates for single, double and triple chamber stimulation
     

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Director

Prof. Dr. med. Eckart Fleck

Prof. Dr. Eckart Fleck

 

Director

Department of Internal Medicine / Cardiology

Fon +49 (0)30 - 4593 2400
Fax +49 (0)30 - 4593 2500
E-Mail kardiologie@dhzb.de