MHL Klinik Hirslanden Cardiology

Cardiology
and
Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery

Niobe® magnetically guided catheterisation

Treatments range from medicinal to dilatations of the coronary vessels, implantation of vascular prostheses, bypass operations after a cardiac infarction (or for its prevention) to surgical reconstruction and implantation of heart valves.

Vascular access, pacemaker and vein operations

Klinik Hirslanden offers a comprehensive range of diagnostics, both non-invasive and invasive, and of therapeutic and surgical procedures including the latest Niobe® magnetically guided catheterisation. Cardiology has seen a steady expansion of available therapies, such as the latest drug-eluting stent technology combined with antithrombotic medication.

Balloon angioplasty and implantation of vascular supports (stents) in narrowed or blocked coronary blood vessels, carotid arteries, renal arteries, arm, pelvic and leg blood vessels.

Atherectomy

Valvuloplasty

Chemical septal ablation

Catheter-technical treatment of cardiac arrhythmias (radiofrequency ablation) and treatment of atrial fibrillation and flutters.

Implantation of cardiac pacemakers

Cardiac resynchronisation therapy with special pacemakers for cardiac insufficiency.

Implantation of automatic cardioverter/ defibrillators (ICD) for life-threatening arrhythmias

Cardioversion of atrial fibrillation

More than 2000 diagnostic cardiac catheterisations, approximately 800 percutaneous balloon dilatations and about 800 open heart operations are performed annually.

Patients with cardiovascular diseases are treated in a holistic and comprehensive manner including the following procedures:

Heart valve reconstruction, replacement and multivalve procedures

Catheters are inserted through veins in the groin and then guided to chambers of the heart. Until recently they could only be positioned using guidewires but the Niobe® system now enables a computer to navigate the catheter using external magnetic guidance. For further details visit the Niobe Catheterisation page.

Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery

Kilinik Hirslanden offers a broad spectrum of surgery, backed up by a well equipped intensive care unit with individual sections dedicated to a single patient. Surgery includes:

Combined cardiac, valvular, vascular procedures

Arrhythmia surgery (atrial fibrillation)

Heart valve reconstructions, heart valve replacements, multivalve procedures

Open-heart coronary surgery

Congenital heart defects in adults

Pericardiac diseases: pulmonary vascular disease, pericardial diseases, pericardial effusion

Complications of a myocardial infarction: torn valves, aneurysms

Congenital heart defects in adults

Complications of a myocardial infarction: torn valves, aneurysms

Pericardiac diseases: pulmonary vascular disease, pericardial diseases, pericardial effusion

Heart operations without blood transfusion

Cardiac pacemaker implantations