Aortic valve disease may require valve replacement or repair. Modern cardiac surgery offers a range of treatment options, from minimally invasive catheter-based valve implantation to surgical procedures that preserve the patient's own valve. Learn how these methods differ and when they are used.

Son Linus has a congenital heart defect, and his father also needs heart surgery. Read how both benefited from the Ross procedure and under what circumstances this surgical technique is used. F F

During coronary bypass surgery, narrowed or blocked coronary arteries are bypassed using the patient’s own blood vessels to ensure adequate blood flow to the heart. What once required open-chest surgery can now be performed by the team at the Helios Cardiac Surgery in Karlsruhe through small skin incisions.

Heart palpitations, exhaustion, and the constant fear of a stroke were part of everyday life for Gabi Riedel from Leipzig for many years. Although she had always led an active lifestyle, atrial fibrillation increasingly limited her daily activities. Hearing about serious complications experienced by family members after earlier-generation ablation procedures made her reluctant to undergo treatment…

The cardiologists at Helios Stralsund are expanding their range of services with an innovative procedure for patients with severe heart disease: the so-called coronary sinus (CS) reducer. This new therapy is aimed particularly at people with advanced coronary artery disease for whom conventional treatments have been exhausted and who continue to suffer from chest pain (angina pectoris) and shortne…

As early as 1998, the world’s first robot-assisted heart valve surgery was performed at the Leipzig Heart Center. 28 years later, a new and improved generation of the da Vinci surgical robot is returning to its place of origin.

Helios Hospitals demonstrates outstanding medical quality. The quality figures now published for 2025 show that patients at Helios receive care at the highest level.

An increasing number of patients are benefiting from the Ross procedure, which is offered at the heart center of Helios Hospital Siegburg. In this rare surgical method, the diseased aortic valve is replaced with the patient’s own pulmonary valve, which is then substituted with a donor graft or a biological prosthesis.

At the Helios Hospital for Cardiac Surgery in Karlsruhe, Senior Physician and Head of Arrhythmia Surgery, Dr. Naser Ghaffari Mehrjerdi, together with Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kuschyk, Head of Cardiac Device Therapy at the University Hospital Mannheim, implanted an innovative defibrillator for the treatment of life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias. This procedure was performed at Helios for the first time.…

At the Helios Hospital for Cardiac Surgery in Karlsruhe, the Karlsruhe Heart Team has implanted a so-called Evoque valve for the first time. This artificial valve replaces the tricuspid valve and has now been implanted for the first time using a particularly gentle catheter-based technique (minimally invasive).

The Niederrhein Heart Center is taking a significant step forward in patient care: Under the leadership of Prof. Dr. med. Diyar Saeed, the first robot-assisted bypass operation within the Helios network was performed at the beginning of February.

At the Heart Center Leipzig, a highly innovative heart support system was implanted in autumn 2025 – only for the third time in Europe. The DuoCor BiVAS supports both the left and right ventricles simultaneously and is significantly more compact than conventional biventricular systems. For the 67-year-old patient, Frank Schulz, the heart support system was the last hope, as he was not eligible for…