The Cardiology Center of the German Clinic Essen is divided into five different departments, which are created for:
- Outpatient and inpatient treatment;
- Providing emergency care.
Achievements
The success of the department in numbers – the number of procedures per year:
- Catheter examinations – 5,000;
- Interventional valve therapy – 350;
- Mitral and tricuspid interventions – 80-100;
- Ultrasound of the heart – 15,000;
- Ablation – 500;
- Device-procedures – 300;
- Percutaneous angioplasty – 800.
Specialization
The clinic specializes in all areas of cardiovascular medicine. The following procedures are carried out here:
- Coronary artery disease: treatment of acute coronary syndrome, balloon dilatation (PTCA), Rotablation and reopening of occluded coronary arteries (CTO), intravascular ultrasound (IVUS), optical coherence tomography (OCT) and measurement of fractional flow reserve (FFR);
- High risk interventions: heart support systems;
- Interventional aortic valve replacement (TAVI);
- Interventional mitral valve reconstruction (MitraClip and PASCAL) and tricuspid valve reconstruction;
- Valve rupture: valvuloplasty;
- Interventional electrophysiology with complex ablation and implantation of devices (ICD, CRT, pacemaker, S-ICD, ILR);
- Heart failure: mechanical support systems and heart transplant listing and follow-up;
- Vascular diseases: treatment of patients with acute aortic syndromes (aortic dissection, penetrating aortic ulcer, intramural hematoma);
- Cardiac intensive care, including treatment of patients with acute cardiogenic shock;
- Diagnostic and interventional angiological treatment (recanalization, PTA, stent implantation);
- Cardiovascular imaging.
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