Treatment of Heart Defects, However Complex
In the Department for Congenital Heart Disease – Pediatric Cardiology, our highly specialized team has been treating patients of all ages with congenital heart defects for more than 25 years. In addition to standardized surgical and interventional correction we offer individual treatment solutions for patients with highly complex heart defects.
Our Department has a specialized intensive care unit, an intermediate monitoring ward, outpatient facilities and a Competence Center for Adults with congenital heart defects.
Hybrid Therapy
We have two so-called hybrid operation rooms. These are equipped with a heart-lung machine and modern catheterization laboratory facilities, so that surgical and heart catheter techniques can be combined. The advantage is that these combined procedures are shorter and less complex than other operations and thus the risk and the strain for the patient are reduced.
Further Services
- Dilation of narrow heart valves by catheterization technique
- Opening of closed heart valves by the application of high frequency electric current
- Closure of defects of the atrial and ventricular septum (dividing wall) by placement of an implant (occluder) by catheterization. We use all the commercially available occluders
- Use of heart valves for the non-surgical treatment of incompetence and narrowing of the valve to the pulmonary artery (pulmonary valve)
- Closure of defects of the atrial septal defects without exposure to X-rays
- Treatment of narrowing of vessels close to the heart in newborns and children by placement of a special vessel support (growth stent), which adapts as the patient grows
- Treatment of severe narrowing of the aorta (main artery) with coated vessel prostheses
- Pacemaker treatment to optimize the heart function in patients with heart failure in childhood (synchronization therapy with triple-chamber pacemakers)
- State-of-the-art treatment procedures for severe heart rhythm disturbances by the implantation of defibrillators (AICD) and pacemakers for single, double and triple chamber stimulation
- Implantation of minimally invasive defibrillator systems (S-ICD; Cameron Health), which no longer require leads to be placed in the heart or vessels. Patients with AICDs and particularly complex heart defects or Eisenmenger syndrome can profit from this technology
- Removal of pacemaker leads with the most modern instruments, such as mechanical extraction aids
- Treatment of patients with high lung pressure (pulmonary arterial hypertension) in children and adults
- Implantation of drug pumps for the continuous infusion of treprostinil as an alternative treatment for pulmonary arterial hypertension
- Perioperative monitoring of cerebral perfusion by non-invasive procedures
- Non-invasive cardiocirculatory monitoring by electrical velocimetry for continuous measurement of cardiac output
Outpatient Examinations
Increasingly larger shares of diagnostics and therapy are being shifted to the outpatient sector, which on the one hand is an expression of a clear trend in the German health care system and on the other hand is constantly increasing the demands on high-quality outpatient care...
