Cardiology and cardiac surgery clinics in Germany

The best clinics in Germany for cardiac surgery

Helios Krefeld. This multidisciplinary German clinic has been ranked first in the TOP-German hospitals ranking for the last 5 years according to the Focus magazine.

One of the main specializations of the hospital is cardiac surgery. The number of deaths from aortic valve replacement over the past 4 years was 0%!

The clinic’s cardiac surgeons specialize in the following operations:

• TAVI — aortic valve implantation using catheter technology;
• Mitral valve repair for mitral regurgitation;
• Plastic tricuspid valve using catheter technology for tricuspid regurgitation;
• Reopening of chronically blocked coronary arteries.

Asklepios Clinic. This clinic is ISO accredited and certified by the Medical Tourism Quality Alliance (MTQA). Cardiac surgeons at Asklepios Medical Center perform gentle heart surgery through a thin incision (up to 10 mm) between the ribs.

Doctors use German and Swiss materials during surgery, so the stitches heal quickly and postoperative rehabilitation takes no more than 10 days. Every year the cardiac surgeons of the Asklepios Clinic perform over 1,300 heart surgeries, of which more than a third — for children.

Nord Clinic Alliance. The cardiology department at Nord Alliance is the largest in northern Germany. The center’s cardiac surgeons most often perform coronary artery bypass grafting, heart valve correction and operations using the «artificial heart» system.

Every year in the cardiac surgery department, doctors perform more than 2,600 surgical interventions, half of which are mitral valve repair.

The most famous German cardiologists and cardiac surgeons

Max Tsegelman is an interventional cardiologist with over 35 years of experience. He is the Head of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at the Helios Krefeld Clinic and the author of over 100 scientific papers.

The main specialization of the doctor:

• Operation Ross;
• Heart valve repair;
• Aortic surgery.

Christopher Reitmann is a cardiologist and cardiac surgeon with a doctorate in medicine. He is the head of the Helios Clinic Munich and is a member of the German Association of Cardiac Surgeons.

The doctor performs the following procedures:

• Cardiac bypass surgery;
• Installing a defibrillator;
• Electrophysiological research;
• Plastic and valve replacement.

Heinrich Klus is an interventional cardiologist with 38 years of experience. He has performed over 150 operations to install a pacemaker. The doctor is a member of the Association of Cardiologists of America, Germany and Europe.

The doctor deals with the treatment of the following pathologies:

• Heart failure;
• Cardiomyopathy;
• Arrhythmia;
• Inflammatory heart disease;
• Congenital or acquired heart valve defects;
• High blood pressure.