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HerzZentrum Saar - Cardiac Surgery
Cardiothoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Department

    


Medical Director:
Dr Helmut Isringhaus

Senior Physicians:
Dr Franz Hausinger 
(Head senior physician)
Dr Gerhard Kalweit
Dr Hanno Huwer
Dr Uwe Straub
Peter Greilach

Head of Cardiac Surgery Division: 
Dr Gerhard Kalweit

Head of Thoracic Surgery Division:
Dr Hanno Huwer

Structure:
57 Betten (therefrom 18 in intensive care)

Office:
Karin Mertens
       Phone: +49 (0) 6898/12-2109
       Fax: +49 (0) 6898/12-2478
       e-mail: info@herzzentrum-saar.de

Range of activities and treatments

Surgical treatments of congenital or acquired heart diseases and of other diseases within the chest, especially:

- blood circulation disorder in the heart 
  (coronary heart disease)
- heart valve diseases - congenital or
  acquired heart diseases,
- aortic diseases,
- surgically treatable diseases with heart
  muscle weakness,
- inflammation of the rib case,
- tumours of the lung and of the rib case,
- other operable lung diseases



 

Range of treatments      

Operations under extracorporeal circulation, like:

- coronary bypass grafting,
- heart valve replacement or repair,
- aorta replacement,
- correction of congenital or acquired
  heart diseases,
- mechanical assistance system for heart
  muscle weakness (intraaortic balloon
  pump, extracorporeal membrane
  oxygenation)    

Operations without extracorporeal circulation:

- beating heart bypass surgery (OPCAB,
  MIDCAB), 
- pericardial surgery,
- pulmonary surgery,
- mediastinoscopy.  

The Department is accredited to provide continuous medical education for physicians in internal medicine and cardiology.