January 2010:
In mid-December the European Register for Patients with Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices was launched and the statutes approved. Currently, the following are participants in the Register: the DHZB, the Heart and Diabetes Center in Bad Oeynhausen, the Department for Thoracic, Cardiac and Vascular Surgery of the University of Aachen, the University Hospital of...
January 2010:
A Charité/DHZB Joint Project
At the beginning of the year the Marfan Center, founded jointly by Charité-Universitätsmedizin and the DHZB and located in the DHZB, was opened. The interdisciplinary Marfan team is led and coordinated by Prof. Roland Hetzer and, as his deputy, Prof. Felix Berger. Senior physician Dr. Petra Gehle is the organizational head. Recent changes in the law allow hospitals...
January 2010:
Strong, bright and self-confident – that applies not only to Berlin but also to the heavy bronze sculpture, the golden Julius, that is awarded annually for special service to the city. Each year a personality from the world of economics, science, culture or the media receives the prize. Further prizes are awarded to young newcomers in these fields and for special...
January 2010:
Living with the Spare Parts of Cardiac Medicine
Are we all on the way to becoming cyborgs? Probably we have always been on the way there, since the desire to imitate nature in order to restore lost functions of the human body is very old and has always been particularly strong when wars and epidemics have threatened humanity. The wooden leg or the gold facial epithesis represent the oldest attempts to restore...
November 2009:
Congress: European and International Day of Organ Donation
In Europe there is a glaring shortage of donor organs. At present around 63,000 people are waiting for an organ, about 12,000 of them in Germany. Every day about 12 people on the organ waiting list die.
Participants from over 60 countries attended the 5th international and 11th European day of organ donation, which was followed by the...
November 2009:
“You too can save lives – as an organ donor" proclaim posters that are part of the organ donation campaign initiated by Prof. Hetzer. “Superman” and his heroine show, with a twinkle in their eye, that anyone can become a life-saver and therefore a super-hero - by carrying an organ donor card in their wallet or purse.
For two two-week periods five different images...
November 2009:
In critical condition the small boy Jargal from Ulan Bator in Mongolia was flown to Berlin and operated upon at the DHZB late in the evening of the same day. The two-month-old child had total anomalous pulmonary venous connection ‑ a complex congenital heart defect ‑ and other subsidiary diseases threatening his heart and lung function.
The emergency operation was...
November 2009:
Prof. Hetzer Signed Memorandum
The state secretary of the Mongolian Ministry of Health, Dr. Khurelbaatar Nyamdavaa, and the chairman of the Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Roland Hetzer in October signed a "memorandum of understanding" at the DHZB. This is a cooperative contract that is part of a bilateral agreement between the Germany Ministry of Health and Mongolia.
The...
November 2009:
6th International Congress on Mechanical Circulatory Support at the DHZB
The DHZB has performed 1450 implantations of 16 different cardiac assist device systems since 1988 and therefore has more expertise in the area of assist devices and total artificial hearts (TAH) in infants, children and adults than any other institution worldwide.
At the beginning of November the DHZB held the 6th International Mechanical Circulatory...
November 2009:
On September 1 the chairman of the DHZB, Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h.c. Roland Hetzer, received an honorary doctorship from Moscow’s Lomonosow State University. The academic celebration was preceded by a scientific lecture by the deacon, Prof. Acad. Viktor Sadownichi, who is also vice president of the Russian Academy of the Sciences, and was attended by almost 4000...
