German Cardiology Center Munich

Deutsches Herzzentrum München (German Cardiology Center Munich) is the first institution in Europe specializing in cardiology, founded in 1972. Patients can stay in inpatient departments (197 beds), and 1,200 employees constantly work on the hospital staff – doctors, nursing and junior medical personnel. In one year, the German cardiology center performs:

• 100 mitral valve corrections;
• 250 peripheral interventions;
• 2,000 stent implantation operations;
• treatment of 1,200 patients with arrhythmias.

The cardiology center has 6 departments, each of which has its own specialization. Practicing doctors have certificates from International Societies and use the latest developments of specialists in their work.

Cardiac Surgery Department

More than 2,500 operations are performed annually, and the department is considered the leading one in Germany. The following procedures are available to patients:

• treatment of aortic aneurysms by invasive methods;
• heart transplantation;
• valve reconstruction;
• artery bypass surgery.

Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and Congenital Defect Surgery Department

Every year, more than 500 operations are performed in the Munich clinic department, patient observation and monitoring of their condition and dynamics is carried out around the clock. Most often, department specialists face the need to install a heart-lung machine. An important nuance: doctors find an individual approach to children and their parents or guardians, because the success of treatment also depends on the absence of fear, tears and worries.

Department doctors successfully treat all heart diseases – survival rate of even complex patients is 97%. This indicator is confirmed only for 5 clinics in the whole world.

Cardiology Department

Research is being conducted on the basis of the department for the treatment of heart diseases. Doctors provide assistance to patients with acute myocardial infarction around the clock, perform coronary angiography urgently. The time from patient admission to the department and opening of the problematic coronary vessel is no more than 70 minutes.

Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Defect Treatment Department

The clinic has been a leader at the international level for 30 years. Doctors pay special attention to the issue of psychological understanding with young patients and their companions. Library, clowns, game rooms, computer games will help patients distract from unpleasant procedures and pain. And professional psychologists will work with parents, who will support, explain, calm.

Parents and guardians can stay in separate rooms of the department or in rooms located near the institution.

Adult and Pediatric Radiology, Nuclear Medicine Department

Diagnosis and treatment of heart pathologies without the use of modern technologies is a deliberately hopeless "event". The German specialized cardiology center in Munich employs specialists in the latest technologies who have just received certificates and licenses for practical use. The department has a new 128-channel cardiac tomograph – patients and doctors have access to the full range of examinations and diagnostics of cardiovascular system pathologies.

Head of Cardiac Surgery Department Professor, Doctor of Medicine Rüdiger Lange

Head of Adult and Pediatric Radiology, Nuclear Medicine Department Doctor of Medicine St. Martinoff

Head of Cardiology Department Professor, Doctor of Medicine Heribert Schunkert

Head of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and Congenital Defect Surgery Department Professor, Doctor of Medicine Peter Ewert