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Center for Heart and Vascular Medicine Recover Inner Strength The heart is the most important organ in the body, but at the same time highly vulnerable. In Germany, more than 90000 cardiac operations are performed every year. Doctors and surgeons consider these operations, which are planned and performed on a daily basis, as part of their routine practice. Atherosclerosis is the most important condition for further cardiac and vascular diseases. That is why in the Elisabeth Hospital in Essen the staff of the departments specialized in cardiology and angiology work so intensively together. An independent Competence Center includes the Departments of Cardiology and Angiology, under Prof. Dr. Georg V. Sabin and Dr. Volkmar Bongers, of Vascular Surgery, under Prof. Dr. Horst-Wilhelm Kniemeyer, and of Radiology, under Prof. Dr. Michael Forsting. The Center for Heart and Vascular Medicine at the Elisabeth Hospital is renowned nation-wide as one of the most excellent Centers of Competence in this field. Its range of services includes extensive open and closed heart surgery, especially operations of the coronary arteries, cardiac valves, and the main thoracic blood vessels. In addition, surgery to correct congenital heart defects in adults and to implant cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators is also performed. We have always been dedicated to creating ideal conditions to serve each of our patients in an optimal and individual manner, and to offering the best medical, surgical and nursing care by our team of 52 highly qualified specialists serving 20 beds. Our patients consistently meet these efforts with great appreciation, as reflected in personal conversations and our optional questionnaires.
Surgeons, anesthesists and nurses all form a perfect team, working in close cooperation, so that the duration of surgery and the period in which the patient is under narcosis is kept to a minimum. The most advanced medical technology and state-of-the-art equipment play an important role in providing the best care in the field of heart and vascular surgery. The Elisabeth Hospital is also now equipped with high-end medical technology in the field of non-invasive cardiologic diagnostics. Multi-slice Computer Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging are two of the latest technologies acquired by the Hospital. These high-end diagnostic technologies exhibit excellent visualization of the cardiac and vascular anatomy, and are therefore most sensitive in detecting congenital heart defects, inflammatory heart diseases, tumors of the heart, cardiac valve diseases, and coronary calcifications for the evaluation of myocardial infarction sequelae. Another improvement, the new Siemens cardiac catheterization unit «AXIOM», has been in operation since 2004. The Competence Center for Heart and Vascular Medicine is, with some 6000 angiographs of the coronary vessels and nearly 1700 vascular dilatations annually, one of the largest in Germany. The hospital, with this worldwide unique Competence Center for Heart and Vascular Medicine, has succeeded in further strengthening its pioneering position to meet the high demands of modern cardiology.
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