The whole spectrum of cardiothoracic and vascular surgery required by patients of all ages with heart and circulatory diseases of all kinds. Supraregional 24-hour emergency service.

• Conventional coronary artery surgery with and without the heart-lung machine
   
  
• Special methods for coronary revascularization (complete arterial revascularization, biocompound graft, transmyocardial laser revascularization)
   
  
• Heart-preserving surgery for advanced heart failure, including aneurysm resection and stem cell transplantation
   
  
• Heart valve sparing operations and heart valve replacement (e.g. mitral valve reconstruction, Ross operation)
   
  
• Simultaneous operation on more than one heart valve and combinatory procedures (e.g. heart valve replacement combined with bypass operation)
   
  
• Operations to reconstruct or replace parts of the main artery of the body, the aorta (e.g. for dissections, aneurysms, Marfan syndrome, traumatic rupture)
   
  
• Endovascular stent implantation by means of special catheter technique for diseases of the aorta and the arteries
   
  
• Surgical treatment of heart rhythm disturbances (e.g. by maze procedure)
   
  
• All therapeutic procedures to regulate the heart rhythm in cases of severe disorders by the implantation of defibrillators and pacemakers for single-chamber, double-chamber and triple-chamber stimulation
   
  
• Surgical correction of congenital heart defects in patients of all ages, including newborns and infants
   
  
• Heart and/or lung transplantation
   
  
• Implantation of mechanical circulatory support systems (so-called “artificial hearts”) in patients of all ages, including newborns and infants, and of heart replacement systems (the total artificial heart)
   
  
• Special surgical procedures to minimize the need for blood transfusions during operations on newborn children (miniaturized heart-lung machine) and adults
   
  
• Treatment of patients with elevated lung pressure (pulmonary hypertension)
   
  
• Special procedures to treat end-stage heart failure (e.g. by immunoadsorption)
   
  
• Treatment of patients following heart and/or lung transplantation and of patients with mechanical circulatory support systems (outpatient treatment)