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West German Heart Centre, Essen
The West German Heart Centre in Essen, together with its Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, is one of the largest specialist clinics in Europe, focusing on high-risk and highly complex cardiac surgery. The West German Heart Centre is part of University Hospital Essen and comprises two departments: the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and the Department of Cardiology. Doctors from many countries regularly complete fellowships at the clinic, both in research and in clinical projects.
The clinic's four operating theatres are equipped with the latest surgical technology for the full range of modern operations on the heart, blood vessels and thoracic organs, with maximum safety for the patient. The coronary angiography and angioplasty techniques used here considerably widen the treatment options, minimise risks and shorten the patient's stay in hospital. In addition, the clinic has a further operating theatre, the Hybrid Room, for so-called hybrid procedures, which combines the features of an operating theatre and a cardiac catheterisation laboratory.
This gentle approach saves both operating time and time spent in hospital. The clinic performs more than 2500 operations a year, half of them using a mechanical heart-lung support system.
The Department of Cardiology is headed by one of Germany's leading cardiologists, Prof. Dr. med. Raimund Erbel, and the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery by Prof. Dr. med. Heinz Günther Jakob. Year after year both are listed among Germany's best doctors by «Focus» magazine and included in the Leading Medicine Germany list. The two departments have 55 and 50 hospital beds respectively.
One of the Centre's key areas of work is coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) performed without a heart-lung machine (off-pump), which is less traumatic, carries a lower risk of bleeding, and means a shorter hospital stay and faster postoperative recovery.
- Department of Cardiac Surgery;
- Department of Cardiology and Angiology;
- Department of Paediatric Cardiology;
- Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
- Department of Neurology;
- Department of Vascular Surgery;
- Institute of Pathophysiology;
- Institute of Pharmacology and Cardiovascular Pharmacology;
- Institute for Cardiovascular Disease Research
- electrophysiology laboratory;
- cardiac catheterisation laboratory;
- navigation system for microsurgery;
- radiofrequency ablation systems (RFA);
- ventilators;
- ECG machines;
- state-of-the-art X-ray units and innovative three-dimensional mapping techniques (CARTO®, CARTO-Merge®, NavX®)
- cardiac ultrasound equipment;
- MRI;
- PET/CT;
- innovative CT scanners, in particular 3D-Dyna-CT
- equipment for cardiac scintigraphy;
- ergometers;
- high-frequency ECG;
- "hybrid operating theatre";
- intravascular ultrasound with virtual histology;
- intravascular Doppler;
- intraluminal pressure measurement;
- OCT;
- innovative systems for the implantation of biological heart valves;
- Holter monitoring;
- spiroergometry;
- event recorder.
- coronary artery bypass grafting, including minimally invasive techniques performed without a mechanical heart-lung support system (off-pump);
- arterial bypass grafting;
- heart valve surgery (repair of the aortic, mitral and tricuspid valves or valve replacement);
- minimally invasive (endoscopic) cardiac surgery (removal of heart valves, veins and arteries, cardiac tumours, repair of atrial defects);
- catheter-based aortic valve implantation (transapical, transarterial);
- surgery of the thoracic aorta (aneurysm and dissection);
- aortic stenting using minimally invasive surgical techniques;
- surgical treatment of cardiac arrhythmias, Maze and Mini-Maze procedures, pacemakers, De8 defibrillators, cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT);
- resection of post-infarction left ventricular aneurysm, repair of ventricular septal defect;
- complex «maximum surgery» cardiac procedures (aortic arch surgery, treatment of heart valve inflammation, pulmonary and aortic embolism, redo operations, lung surgery);
- heart, lung and combined heart-lung transplantation;
- pulmonary thromboendarterectomy;
- hybrid procedures and complex combined surgical interventions;
- surgery for tumours of the heart and blood vessels, the mediastinum and the lungs;
- emergency cardiac surgery, including surgical treatment of acute myocardial infarction, aortic dissection and pulmonary embolism;
- concomitant surgical repair of congenital heart defects (atrial septum, mitral valve);
- the Essen patient care model;
- physiotherapy;
- diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart defects;
- diagnosis and treatment of various cardiac arrhythmias;
- pacemaker implantation;
- diagnosis and treatment of cardiomyopathy and myocarditis;
- diagnosis and treatment of coronary artery disease and heart failure;
- diagnosis and treatment of rheumatic heart disease and angina pectoris;
- surgery on the heart valves and coronary vessels;
- heart and lung transplantation;
- paediatric cardiac surgery;
- complex heart valve surgery;
- surgery of the thoracic aorta;
- complex coronary surgery;
- endovascular treatment of the aorta.
- modern single and double rooms with telephone, television and internet access;
- a flat-screen television and a telephone with a personal number for every patient;
- wireless internet access (W-LAN);
- cash machine;
- hospital library;
- help with accommodation for patients’ relatives and loved ones;
- a parent may stay in the room with their child;
- Protestant and Catholic chaplains;
- interdenominational chapel at the clinic;
- social services;
- volunteer helpers.
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