Services - Cardiothoracic Surgery
Our services in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
- Heart valve surgeries
- Multiple valve replacement
- Minimally invasive procedures
- Procedures without heart-lung-machine
- Vascular surgery (e.g. aneurysm procedures)
- Simultaneous procedures
- Pacemaker surgery
- Arrhythmia surgery
The Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery puts special focus on the following:
- Total arterial and minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass operations (MIDCAB/OPCAB)
- Minimally invasive, catheter-assisted transapical aortic valve replacement (TAVI)
- Mechanical and biological aortic and mitral valve replacement and reconstruction
- Aneurysm-surgery involving the entire aorta including aortic valve reconstruction
- Simultaneous cardiac and peripheral vascular surgery procedures
- Pacemaker surgery (surgical extraction of infected pacemaker and AICD systems)
- Heart rhythm surgery (e.g. endocardial and epicardial atrial ablation, also combined with other cardiac procedures)
- Implantation of artificial heart assist devices (temporary and long-term therapy for severe cardiac insufficiency biventricular (BVAD) and left ventricular (LVAD))
- Vascular surgery procedures for cardiac patients
- Lung tumor surgery
