Medicine for the whole person - from the heart
Our medical team combines the expertise of pediatric cardiologists, adult cardiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons, intensive care physicians, radiologists, anesthesiologists and specialists for adults with congenital heart defects to find the best strategy for you or your child to live as long and carefree a life as possible.
Some congenital heart defects can be corrected with a single intervention or even require no special therapy at all, while others require long-term therapy concepts, often with several coordinated interventions and long-term cardiological care.
In order to achieve these goals, we coordinate with the specialist disciplines involved and the physicians in private practice at regular cardiology-surgery conferences - for each of our patients who require surgical or interventional therapy. The recorded results serve as the basis for the further diagnostic and therapeutic roadmap.
We put all our knowledge, experience and passion into finding the best solution with you and for you. In the following navigation module you will find the core areas of our cardiology work.
Cardiac medicine for patients
Are you a patient and have an inquiry about diagnostics and treatment with us? Then use our patient information here on our Clinical Department website.
Are you a colleague and would like to introduce a patient? Then use our options for cardiology presentations.
Our range of diagnostics and treatments
As a maximum care hospital, Hannover Medical School has one of the largest Departments of Paediatric Cardiology and Intensive Care Medicine of its kind in Germany. All common invasive and non-invasive diagnostic and therapeutic options are constantly available to the latest standards and departments that are required for the treatment of life-threatening conditions are on call around the clock. Our diagnostic and therapeutic options include
- Cardiac echo
incl. color Doppler examinations, 3D analyses, strain analyses, transesophageal echocardiography ("swallowing echo"), fetal echocardiography (ultrasound in the womb in collaboration with gynecology) - Cardiac catheterization laboratory with radiation-reducing technology
Performance of all diagnostic and interventional procedures, including valve replacement using catheter technology, closure of heart defects, expansion of vessels using stents or balloons - Surgery using the latest cardiotechnology
Performance of all surgical procedures in the field of congenital heart defects, incl. valve replacement procedures using tissue-optimized valves, neonatal surgery, EMAH surgery - Medical performance diagnostics
Spiroergometry on the treadmill or bicycle - Rhythm diagnostics
ECG, long-term ECG, exercise ECG, event recorder - Blood pressure diagnostics
Long-term blood pressure measurement - Pulmonary function diagnostics
in collaboration with pediatric pneumology - Interrogation devices for all common pacemaker/ICD systems
- Computer tomography (CT)
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRT)
- Heart (lung) replacement procedures
ECMO, Berlin Heart, VAD systems
And these are our patients
Many of our patients are born with a heart defect (congenital heart defects). We care for these patients in close cooperation with our pediatric cardiology colleagues in private practice. If hospital treatment becomes necessary, you will receive a referral from the colleague.
However, we not only treat patients with congenital heart defects of all ages - from infants to schoolchildren and adolescents (JEMAH) to adults (EMAH), but also patients with other diseases.
- Patients with congenital heart defects (newborns, infants, children and adults)
- Heart muscle inflammation (myocarditis) and endocarditis
- Heart muscle diseases (cardiomyopathies; e.g. HOCM, RCM, DCM, also with storage diseases such as Pompe disease)
- Acquired heart defects, e.g. due to inflammation such as mitral stenosis/aortic stenosis
- Heart failure (weakness of the heart muscle)
- High blood pressure (arterial hypertension)
- Pulmonary hypertension (high pressure in the lungs)
- Rhythm disturbances
- Clarification of syncope
- Congenital or acquired vascular constrictions (stenoses) in arteries (e.g. in patients with Wiliams-Beuren syndrome), veins or in the portal vein system (portal vein stenoses, e.g. after liver transplantation)
