Special Skills and Interests:

  • Specialist for Internal Medicine
  • Specialist for Cardiology (Heart Diseases)
  • Specialist for Intensive Care Medicine

Coronary Artery Disease (CAD):

  • Prevention of CAD
  • Diagnostic of angina pectoris,
  • Diagnostic Heart Catheterisation Procedures. (Performed more than 5.000 Coronary Angiographies, left heart catheterisations etc.) and
  • Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCIs): Coronary-Dilatations (PTCA) with an without Stent-Implantations, drug eluting stents (DES). Until now experience of more than 1.000 PTCAs with Stent-Implantations, including intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS), Coronaroscopies, OCTs (optical coherence tomography) and Pressure wire investigations.
  • Follow up post Coronary-Interventions, post Myocardial Infarction and after CABG (Bypass-Surgery)

Heart Failure (HF) and Cardiomyopathies (dilated and hypertrophic):

  • Diagnostics in patients with heart failures (systolic, diastolic, left and right heart failure)
  • Initiation and Surveillance of all therapeutic strategies in HF:
    • Drug Therapy
    • Pacemakers, including cardiac resynchronisation-Therapy (CRT-PM)
    • Evaluation of OptiVol-PM
    • Exercise programs in patients with heart failure
    • Controls prae and post HTX

Valvular Heart Diseases:

  • Control of patients prae and post artificial valve replacement or valve repair (incl. also e.g. percutaneous Aortic valve replacement - "Ascendra")

Arrhythmias:

  • Diagnostic approaches including implantable diagnostic devices (e.g. Reveal)
  • Drug therapy
  • Pacemaker- and ICD- therapies (implantable automatic defibrillators)
  • Ablations-Therapy

Diagnoses and Therapy of Hypertension

Primary and secondary Prevention for risk reduction of any heart diseases:

  • Control of blood cholesterol, LDL, HDL, triglycerides etc.
  • Treatment of cardiac Risk Factors (Nicotine, weight loss, Diabetes, Exercise program etc.)