Diagnosis and treatment spectrum
State-of-the-art diagnostic options and patient-focused therapy approaches are the hallmarks of the Schüchtermann-Klinik’s cardiology department.
We treat more than 5,000 patients every year.
THERAPEUTIC CATHETER PROCEDURES
- Balloon dilatation of the coronary vessels (PTCA) and stent implantation
- Use of conventional drug-eluting absorbable stents
- Rotablation (vessel milling for the treatment of severely calcified vessels)
- Recanalisation of chronic coronary artery occlusion (CTO)
- Balloon dilatation of arteries (PTA) outside the heart and stent implantation (including the aorta)
- Sclerotherapy of pathologically altered tissue in the heart (ablation) for complex cardiac arrhythmias and atrial fibrillation
- Closure of cardiac septal defects (ASD, VSD, PFO)
- Dilatation of narrowed heart valves
- Closure (embolisation) of non-functioning vessels
- Catheter-based aortic valve replacement (TAVI)
- Catheter-based therapy for leaks in the mitral valve (Mitra-Clip)
- Catheter-based atrial appendage closure
- Catheter-based therapy for leaks in the tricuspid valve (tricuspid clipping)
- Sclerotherapy of nerve fibres in the renal arteries (renal artery denervation) for refractory hypertension
- Baroreceptor stimulation for the treatment of refractory hypertension (carotid pacemaker)
DIAGNOSTIC CATHETER AND X-RAY PROCEDURES
- Left heart catheterisation including coronary angiography, laevocardiography
- Right heart catheterisation including shunt diagnostics
- Pressure wire process (FFR)
- Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS)
- Electrophysiological examination (EPU)
- Angiography of arteries and veins outside the heart
PULMONARY FUNCTION AND CIRCULATION DIAGNOSTICS
- Spirometry
- Body plethysmography
- Spiro-ergometry
- Tilt table test
ECG, BLOOD PRESSURE AND PERFUSION DIAGNOSTICS
- Resting ECG
- Exercise ECG
- Long-term ECG
- Long-term blood pressure measurement
- Peripheral Doppler pressure measurement
- Oscillography
ULTRASOUND AND MRI DIAGNOSTICS
- Transthoracic echocardiography
- Trans-oesophageal echocardiography (TOE)
- 3D echo/TOE
- Stress echocardiography
- Vascular duplex sonography
- Sonography of other body regions
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT) of the heart and vessels
