Cardiology Weißenfels: Heart Specialists in Saxony-Anhalt

The clinic for cardiology and rhythmology at the Asklepios Klinik Weißenfels near Leipzig stands for outstanding expertise and state-of-the-art technology.

The heart health specialists under Dr Burcin Özüyaman, and PD Dr Kerstin Bode, treat patients with cardiovascular diseases with an extensive range of conservative and interventional services.

The clinic has two state-of-the-art catheter laboratories to perform interventions according to the highest standards. In addition, the examinations are among the clinic's routine procedures, and the attending physicians contribute outstanding expertise.

Focus: Therapy for Narrowed Coronary Arteries, Coronary Heart Disease

Often, medical therapy for coronary heart disease is not sufficient. If one or more coronary vessels are severely narrowed, Dr Özüyaman's team specializes in reopening the vessels interventionally, i.e., via vascular access to the arm. This is done by the percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). In this procedure, the vessel is dilated with a balloon catheter, or small wire meshes, so-called stents, are inserted. These stents serve to keep the vessel open. In some cases of severely calcified vessels, the doctors at the hospital in Weißenfels also use the so-called coronary drill to open up the heart disease vessels. Particular expertise is opening of sometimes very old or chronic coronary occlusions, where a large part of the arteries is reopened sometimes using exceptional techniques.

Focus on Cardiac Arrhythmias, Implantation of Pacemakers and Defibrillators

Patients with palpitations, extrasystole, or an irregular sequence of heartbeats suffer from cardiac arrhythmia. The most typical symptoms include palpitations, dizziness or fainting attacks, and decreased physical performance.

A special focus of cardiology in Weißenfels describes the treatment of patients with pacemakers and defibrillators. To normalize slow or irregular heart rhythms, the devices emit impulses intended to generate regular heart action. For example, these impulses compensate for too slow rhythms or have a preventive effect on dangerous ventricular rhythms.

The heart specialists in Weißenfels have many years of outstanding expertise in the implantation, revision, and explantation of any form of pacemaker and defibrillator. In addition to surgeries on classic transvenous 1- and 2-chamber devices, operations with 3-chamber devices (CRT), wireless pacemakers, subcutaneous defibrillators, and stimulation of the physiological excitation conduction system are also performed in a state-of-the-art surgery room.

In addition, the clinic offers comprehensive diagnostics and medical and, if necessary, interventional therapy for atrial and ventricular arrhythmias.

Atrial Appendage Closure

Patients with atrial fibrillation are treated with blood-thinning drugs (so-called (N)OAK) to prevent strokes. However, in rare cases, blood thinning leads to very dangerous bleeding (especially gastrointestinal bleeding, brain bleeding, etc.). In these patients, atrioventricular occluders are implanted, which protects the patients from strokes and in which the blood-thinning drugs can be discontinued after successful implantation. Usually, closure is carried out using catheter-guided interventional techniques. The team has built up a great deal of experience in recent years and can offer care of the highest quality.

Atrial Septal Occlusion

The persistent foramen ovale is an opening in the atrial septum that separates the left atrium from the right atrium. Before birth, the opening is physiological and necessary for oxygenation, after which it usually closes. The persistent opening can remain completely symptomless, but it can also cause a paradoxical stroke of the brain. This occurs because clots can travel through the opening from the right heart to the left heart and the brain, occluding essential vessels. For this reason, if an open foramen ovale exists after a stroke has occurred, prophylactic closure of the defect can be performed. Here, too, closure is usually performed using a catheter-guided interventional technique.

Please, visit the website of the clinic for cardiology for further information.