During its 25 years of existence, the Heart Center Leipzig has reached the highest international level. Today, the Heart Center Leipzig employs more than 1,450 employees under the supervision of internationally experienced doctors and renowned scientists.
The Heart Center Leipzig provides a wide range of services and covers the diagnostics and treatment of all diseases of the cardiovascular system.
The prehospital, inpatient and outpatient care is provided to approximately 44,000 patients annually.
The Heart Center Leipzig provides a wide range of services and covers the diagnostics and treatment for all types of the cardiovascular diseases.
Under an interdisciplinary model, the Heart Center Leipzig brings together the expertise of multiple medical professionals called "Heart Team" in order to provide the best treatment for patients. Heart Team consists of the cardiologist, cardiac surgeon, arrhythmologist, anesthesiologist and internist.
Multidisciplinary teams of specialists in close collaboration with the specialized departments ensure the best personalized medical service for adults and children, paying particular attention to safety and quality.
The Heart Center Leipzig Team has participated and is still participating in the development of many innovative therapies for cardiovascular diseases that are now became standard treatments worldwide, for example: minimally invasive heart valve surgery, TAVI (transcatheter aortic valve implantation), MitraClip ( transcatheter mitral valve reconstruction), TriClip (transcatheter tricuspid valve reconstruction), modern ablation methods and modern methods of correcting congenital heart defects.
| 18.374 | (partly) inpatients |
| 3.589 | prehospital patients |
| 23.505 | outpatients |
| 5.351 | surgical interventions |
| 8.650 | catheter examinations |
| 2.126 | ablations |
| 1.415 | insertions of pacemakers or defibrillators |
| 2.489 | Cardiac MRI |
| 1.450 |
employees |
| 440 |
beds |
| 10 | day-care beds
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Senior Consultant Cardiology & Head of the Structural Heart Disease Department
Heart Center LeipzigTranscatheter valve replacement Complex coronary interventions Coronary and structural heart disease programs
Full range of heart surgeries (valve surgery with a focus on valve-sparing and reconstructive techniques, bypass surgery, aortic surgery) Mi…
Director of the University Clinic for Pediatric Cardiology
Heart Center LeipzigTreatment of all congenital and acquired heart defects in children Catheter interventions Rhythmology Echocardiography CT and MRI Norwood, G…
Chief Physician Anesthesiology & Intensive Care
Heart Center LeipzigFast-track concept and postoperative care Postoperative pain therapy Perioperative echocardiography Paediatric cardiac anesthesia Trans Cath…
Chief Physician of the Department of Radiology
Heart Center LeipzigConventional x-ray / angiography Computed tomography (CT) / Multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT) Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Chief physician of pediatric heart surgery
Heart Center LeipzigAtrial septal defects Ventricular septal defects Sinus venosus defects hypoplastic left heart syndrome ( HLHS ) Transposition of large vesse…
Medical Director of Helios Private Clinic Leipzig I Managing Senior Physician of the University Clinic for Cardiac Surgery
Heart Center LeipzigMinimally-invasive mitral and aortic valve reconstruction and replacement Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) Coronary artery byp…
Cardiology Interventional cardiology Internal diseases
Senior Consultant at the Department of Cardiac Surgery, Head of the Division of Structural Heart Disease
Heart Center Leipzig
Senior Consultant at the University Clinic for Cardiac Surgery/ Head of the HTX and VAD program
Heart Center LeipzigHTX and VAD
Chief Physician of the Department of Rhythmology
Heart Center Leipzig
Senior Consultant, Department of Rhythmology
Heart Center Leipzig
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