Special Skills and Interests:
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Specialist for Internal Medicine
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Specialist for Cardiology (Heart Diseases)
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Specialist for Intensive Care Medicine
Coronary Artery Disease (CAD):
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Prevention of CAD
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Diagnostic of angina pectoris,
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Diagnostic Heart Catheterisation Procedures. (Performed more than 5.000 Coronary Angiographies, left heart catheterisations etc.) and
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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.
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Follow up post Coronary-Interventions, post Myocardial Infarction and after CABG (Bypass-Surgery)
Heart Failure (HF) and Cardiomyopathies (dilated and hypertrophic):
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Diagnostics in patients with heart failures (systolic, diastolic, left and right heart failure)
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Initiation and Surveillance of all therapeutic strategies in HF:
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Drug Therapy
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Pacemakers, including cardiac resynchronisation-Therapy (CRT-PM)
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Evaluation of OptiVol-PM
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Exercise programs in patients with heart failure
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Controls prae and post HTX
Valvular Heart Diseases:
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Control of patients prae and post artificial valve replacement or valve repair (incl. also e.g. percutaneous Aortic valve replacement - "Ascendra")
Arrhythmias:
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Diagnostic approaches including implantable diagnostic devices (e.g. Reveal)
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Drug therapy
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Pacemaker- and ICD- therapies (implantable automatic defibrillators)
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Ablations-Therapy
Diagnoses and Therapy of Hypertension
Primary and secondary Prevention for risk reduction of any heart diseases:
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Control of blood cholesterol, LDL, HDL, triglycerides etc.
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Treatment of cardiac Risk Factors (Nicotine, weight loss, Diabetes, Exercise program etc.)