December 2011:
New Catheter Ablation Procedure Lowers the Values
Some patients still have high blood pressure despite taking a combination of three or four antihypertensive medications. These patients can be helped by a new procedure used to lower the blood pressure. The procedure is known as percutaneous renal denervation and is performed in the Department of Internal Medicine / Cardiology, headed by Prof....
December 2011:
Following this year’s symposium on Mechanical Circulatory Support, several doctors and nurses from the transplantation and circulatory support team of Bern's hospital (director, Dr. Paul Mohacsi) stayed behind at the DHZB to take part in a joint workshop. This enabled them to get to know the work of the institution with ventricular assist...
September 2011:
A high-profile Chinese delegation consisting of the Vice-Governor of the province of Hubei and several ministers visited the DHZB at the invitation of the German‑Chinese Society for Medicine and with the support of the Federal Physicians’ Association. After the guests had been welcomed by Prof. Hetzer and listened to a lecture by Dr. Gerds-Li on...
September 2011:
At the invitation of the medical director of the Chinese First Affiliated Hospital in Nanchang University, Wei Yunfeng, the DHZB administrative director, Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Höhn, and Prof. Dr. Yuguo Weng visited the largest hospital in Jiangxi province. The purpose of their journey was to sign a cooperation agreement for cardiac medicine, which...
September 2011:
DHZB Played a Leading Role as Cooperation Partner for 9 Years
Now it has been officially opened: the Heart Institute with its department for cardiac surgery on the sixth floor of the modern central medical block of the University Hospital of Sarajevo. The first contacts between Bosnia-Herzegovina and the DHZB were established in February 1998 with the spontaneous founding of the humanitarian fund of the DHZB,...
July 2011:
Celebratory Speech by the Chairman, Professor Hetzer
Ladies and gentlemen,
The Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin has been in existence for twenty-five years a quarter of a century – and that is indeed a cause for celebration. When it was founded, as the largest heart surgery institution in Europe, with a planned volume of 2500 open-heart and 100 other operations a year, in the political island of West Berlin, it was...
July 2011:
The party band Hit Mama really got the audience going
At the celebratory meeting in the Red Town-Hall Prof. Hetzer announced that the number of guests expected to the party for the DHZB personnel to be held in the Radio Tower Palais that evening was 2000. Many people thought the figure was a mistake or that they had misheard. But it was quite correct.Some in festive elegance, others more casually dressed; all in all,...
July 2011:
Congress President Prof. Hetzer, who will now be president of the World Society of Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons until the end of the next world congress in 2012 in Vancover, brought this year’s world congress in Berlin (15 June 2011) to a close.
The 21st international congress, held at the InterContinental Hotel, was attended by around 800 cardiovascular surgeons...
April 2011:
Over 300 participants from 19 countries took part in the seventh DHZB Lange Symposium on the topic of the “Univentricular Heart” held at the “dbb forum” in Friedrichstrasse. The guest of honor was Prof. Constantine Mavroudis from Cleveland, an expert in the Fontan operation.
{bild_links}Prof. Felix Berger, the director of...
April 2011:
“Arab Health” Fair in Dubai
As in past years, the DHZB took part in the largest health fair in the Middle East, Arab Health Dubai. Up-to-the-minute medical products, research projects, procedures and medical technology were presented to 45,000 visitors by 2,800 exhibitors from 61 countries, in 32 national pavilions and shared stalls. Flanking Arab Health Dubai, Harald Wolf,...
